The no-confidence motion moved by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) against the Modi government got rejected after 325 MPs voted in favour of the NDA government while 126 MPs voted against.
Before the voting, Prime Narendra Modi addressed the house, giving a point-by-point rebuttal to Congress president Rahul Gandhi who had launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Modi during his speech earlier in the day.
But the speech that started with an attack ended with a wink and a hug.
In his speech, Modi urged the members of the House to reject the motion, and called for it to be scrapped. He further alleged that the no-confidence motion had “exposed” the “negative politics” of the opposition which moved the no-confidence motion under a pretence to test their strength for a trial run.
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Taking a dig at PM Modi's speech, TDP MP Kesineni Srinivas said, "I thought for one and a half hours I was watching a Bollywood blockbuster film. I have no doubt PM would have been the best actor in the world".
Another TDP MP K Srinivas said, “It is not about majority, it is about morality. Morality won today. We wanted to showcase failures of PM and his govt. You take unemployment, farmers distress, economic slowdown and more. He has failed on every aspect and lost trust of people of the country.”
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said, “It is sad to see a man of stature of prime minister is talking irresponsibly. The centre is showing negligence because we don’t have numbers”.
As part of our continuous fight, we introduced this no-confidence motion. In the last four years, I went to Delhi 29 times. Instead of doing justice to AP, he is resorting political attack on me alleging I took U-turn.N Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh CM told ANI
Congress MP Mallikarjun Kharge told ANI, “We posed questions to PM Modi on Rafael deal, Nirav Modi etc but he didn't answer any. His speech was 'dramebaazi'. He didn't say anything for people of Andhra Pradesh. He was telling us what previous governments have done and not what his government has done in four years”.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor told ANI, “The basic message is that the journey is more important than the destination. Failures of the BJP government were put before the nation. The outcome was predictable but the process was successful”.
The prime minister in his 2-hour speech didn’t address any of the woes of the common man. What the BJP says and what it does is a difference between the reality and what they try and conjure up.That is the signal that has gone out.Jyotiraditya Scindia, Congress MP told ANI
While Sitaram Yechury and others took to Twitter to slam PM Modi’s speech in the Lok sabha, calling it a repeat of jumlas and excuses.
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CPI leader Sitaram Yechury trained his guns at Prime Minister Modi for fudging data and repeated jumlas.
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Though the Congress president’s unprecedented wink and hug became the talking point of the day, the night rather ended victorious for the Modi and his government.
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