In a democracy majority matters. Any government in democracy should have majority to enjoy the saddle. If not it will topple. Any democratic country like India sees "No Confidence Motion" as a peril to the ruling government.In a parliamentary democracy setup, motion of no confidence is done against the head of the state or government. Depending on the magnitude of opposition and the constitution the council of ministers will be dismissed. For a individual dismissal censure is called on in many constitutions around the world.
The major difference between censure and Motion of no confidence is that for censure the party should have a valid reason whereas for Motion of no confidence no reason is needed. For this reason motion of no confidence can raised only once in 6 months in India, in most of the countries the time period varies between 3 to 6 months because frequent motions will be counterproductive and result in wastage of tax payers money. In India only in Lower house of the parliament i.e Lok Sabha No Confidence Motion can be raised against the government or a person in a position(censure). It is raised because the members of the parliament find the person or group of person no longer fit to be in that position.
In India anti-defection law is present, if the ruling party with clean majority issues a whip of its party ministers then no minister can vote against the government if he/she fails to do so he will be dismissed from the post, thus for ruling ministers of majority party no confidence motion is called as no confidence excise on party to which they belong. According to Indian law a minimum of 50 members of the parliament should raise concern about the ruling party to bring in no confidence motion, only then it will be taken into account for discussion. Once it is taken, the floor test will take place and all members of the parliament will be asked to vote, if they vote in favor of the motion then the government is bound to vacate the office.
In 1952 Lok Sabha ruled that a no confidence motion can be taken into account if 30 members of the parliament support.In 1963 the first no confidence motion was moved against the government headed by then prime minster Jawaharlal Nehru by J B Kripalani. This no confidence motion came just after the Indo-China war(India was defeated).Nehru government remained unscathed. Nehru remarked the motion as “A no-confidence motion aims at or should aim at removing the party in government and taking its place. It is clear in the present instance that there was no such expectation or hope. And so the debate, although it was interesting in many ways and, I think profitable too, was a little unreal. Personally, I have welcomed this motion and this debate. I have felt that it would be a good thing if we were to have periodical tests of this kind.” India till date has seen 26 motion of no confidence in the lower house out of which only four were dismissed.The first motion was against tht then Prime Minister Prime Minister Morarji Desai moved by YB Chavan in 1979.Desai resigned even before the motion was put to vote.
Today's no confidence motion is the 27th we are witnessing it is prevalently said that Narendra Modi will win it at ease.
The major difference between censure and Motion of no confidence is that for censure the party should have a valid reason whereas for Motion of no confidence no reason is needed. For this reason motion of no confidence can raised only once in 6 months in India, in most of the countries the time period varies between 3 to 6 months because frequent motions will be counterproductive and result in wastage of tax payers money. In India only in Lower house of the parliament i.e Lok Sabha No Confidence Motion can be raised against the government or a person in a position(censure). It is raised because the members of the parliament find the person or group of person no longer fit to be in that position.
In India anti-defection law is present, if the ruling party with clean majority issues a whip of its party ministers then no minister can vote against the government if he/she fails to do so he will be dismissed from the post, thus for ruling ministers of majority party no confidence motion is called as no confidence excise on party to which they belong. According to Indian law a minimum of 50 members of the parliament should raise concern about the ruling party to bring in no confidence motion, only then it will be taken into account for discussion. Once it is taken, the floor test will take place and all members of the parliament will be asked to vote, if they vote in favor of the motion then the government is bound to vacate the office.
In 1952 Lok Sabha ruled that a no confidence motion can be taken into account if 30 members of the parliament support.In 1963 the first no confidence motion was moved against the government headed by then prime minster Jawaharlal Nehru by J B Kripalani. This no confidence motion came just after the Indo-China war(India was defeated).Nehru government remained unscathed. Nehru remarked the motion as “A no-confidence motion aims at or should aim at removing the party in government and taking its place. It is clear in the present instance that there was no such expectation or hope. And so the debate, although it was interesting in many ways and, I think profitable too, was a little unreal. Personally, I have welcomed this motion and this debate. I have felt that it would be a good thing if we were to have periodical tests of this kind.” India till date has seen 26 motion of no confidence in the lower house out of which only four were dismissed.The first motion was against tht then Prime Minister Prime Minister Morarji Desai moved by YB Chavan in 1979.Desai resigned even before the motion was put to vote.
Today's no confidence motion is the 27th we are witnessing it is prevalently said that Narendra Modi will win it at ease.
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