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New Delhi, Delhi, India
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday issued a whip, directing its MPs to vote against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in no-nonfidence motion in parliament on Friday.
AAP issued the whip to its MPs after a delegation of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders sought support from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to the no-confidence motion against the Modi government tabled by them in the Lok Sabha.
A delegation of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders on Thursday sought support from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to the no-confidence motion against the Modi government tabled by them in the Lok Sabha.
Led by TDP Parliamentary Party leader Y.S. Chowdary, state Ministers T.G. Venkatesh, K. Narayana and Narsimha Rao met Kejriwal to seek the Aam Aadmi Party`s (AAP) support in both houses of Parliament against the Modi government.
The team handed over a letter from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to Kejriwal along with a booklet which centres around the denial of special category status to Andhra Pradesh by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Chowdary told the media that Kejriwal agreed with the TDP`s views and termed their problems as genuine.
The Shiv Sena will vote against the no-confidence motion. The party has issued a whip for its MPs, directing them to support the Central Government. As per the sources, BJP president Amit Shah spoke to Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray over phone over the no-confidence motion.
Earlier in the day, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami hinted that the AIADMK is unlikely to support the no-confidence motion.
The Andhra Pradesh TDP government on Wednesday moved the no-confidence motion over special category status issue to the state. On the first day of the monsoon session of Parliament on Wednesday, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan accepted TDP`s no-confidence motion and scheduled it for discussion on Friday.
The BJP today made light of the Congress's claim that the Opposition had the numbers to back its no-confidence motion against the government.
Asked about Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's claim that the Opposition had numbers, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar took a dig at her, saying, "Sonia Gandhi's maths is weak."
Kumar also recalled that Gandhi, as the then Congress chief in 1999, had claimed to have the support of 272 MPs, the majority mark in the Lok Sabha, after the fall of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government.
Echoing similar sentiments, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav said the government had the strength in the House to defeat the motion if one went by Indian mathematics and wondered if Sonia Gandhi knew some other mathematics.
According to sources in the ruling party, it is confident of getting the support of as many as 314 MPs in the Lok Sabha, when the opposition-backed no-confidence motion is put to vote tomorrow.