Monsoon Session Highlights: No-confidence motion against Modi govt rejected in Lok Sabha

NO CONFIDENCE MOTION AGAINST NARENDRA MODI-LED NDA GOVERNMENT REJECTED

No-confidence motion moved by the TDP against the Modi government rejected by voice vote as Speaker Sumitra Mahajan called for those in favour and those against the motion to say yes and no.

Here’s the final tally of votes:

Ayes – 126

Noes – 325

Abstain – 0

Total – 451

Taking a jibe at Rahul Gandhi, PM Modi says How can I look into your eyes (Rahul Gandhi’s) since you are ‘naamdaar’ and I am born into a lower caste and to a poor mother? Today in the House, I was told that I cannot even look straight in the eye. How can I? I am a humble, poor son of a poor mother. How can I dare to look straight into the eye of a ‘naamdaar’? I am ‘kaamdaar’. Talking about winking by Rahul Gandhi, Modi says: Today the whole nation saw how eyes are being used by those talking of looking straight into the eye.

I am proud to say, I am a ‘chowkidar’ and a ‘bhaagidaar’ but not a ‘saudagar’.

We are ‘bhaagidaar’ of development. They played with the emotions of the needy.

They can’t preach us on democracy, Congress has lost its gorund…

I come from a place where development work is over