By Bhupen Goswami
GUWAHATI : Amid the uproar, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government won in the trust vote in Manipur . CM N. Biren Singh succeeded in proving majority in the assembly. The opposition created a huge furore in the House as the speaker did not take up their no-confidence motion. Opposition leaders demonstrated against the speaker and threw chairs at him. Defending the Speaker’s decision, CM Biren Singh said that they won because they have the numbers.CM Biren Singh said, We have won the trust vote by voice vote. Whatever the speaker is doing is according to the rule. The number of opposition MLAs was less. On the other hand, Leader of the Opposition, O Ibobi Singh, called it a murder of democracy.
In the voting, 8 Congress MLAs were found absent. After the vote, six of the eight Congress MLAs have left the party. The BJP won a vote of confidence in the Assembly by voice vote as a total of 28 BJP MLAs and 16 Congress MLAs were present during the voting.There is an atmosphere of chaos for the Congress as their legislators protested and threw chairs in the wells of the House. Before the vote, a dozen of the 24 Congress MLAs did not attend an important party meeting on Sunday ahead of the confidence vote. Therefore, the result was not unexpected in political circles. Biren Singh has been successful in proving majority in the assembly.The Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government won the trust vote amid heavy uproar in the Manipur Assembly.
Recently, the opposition created a ruckus in the Parliament House as the Speaker did not accept his motion of no confidence following which the opposition leaders demonstrated against the Speaker and threw chairs at him. CM Biren Singh defended the Speaker’s decision They said they won, because they had the numbers.The CM said that we have won the trust by voice, he said that whatever the speaker is doing is according to the rule. He said that the number of opposition MLAs was small, on the other hand, Leader of the Opposition and O Ibobi Singh called it a murder of democracy. Six Congress MLAs resigned after voting, while BJP in-charge of North East Ram Madhav has congratulated CM Biren Singh after the victory.
The Congress in the state had issued a whip to all its MLAs before voting. In which all the members were asked to be present in the House. Tell that the Chief Minister of Manipur N. Biren Singh moved the motion of confidence in the assembly on Friday. The CM took a step in view of the no-confidence motion brought by the Congress. In fact, political protests have been going on in Manipur for a long time, some MLAs and ministers rebelled against the BJP-led coalition government, in which the Congress brought a no-confidence motion in the Assembly on 28 July.
However, voting against a candidate with a mandate from the Congress party is not a one-time experience. During the Rajya Sabha (RS) elections in July, 2 Congress MLAs voted for the BJP by going against the party whip. Later, he received show cause notices by the party. Mention that the political crisis in Manipur started just before the RS elections when the BJP government in Manipur lost majority as 9 MLAs in Manipur resigned from the government. Of the 9 MLAs, 3 are BJP, 4 National People’s Party (NPP), 1 TMC and one Independent. Previously, three BJP MLAs from Manipur joined the Congress Party and four NPP members, a minister, an independent coalition MLA, Jiribam and TMC MLA withdrew support to the coalition government and supported the Congress party led by Okram Ibobi Singh . It fails to mention that these deadlock is the inability to form a government in Manipur, leading to the formation of a government in Manipur. The challenge of the party to deal with the aggressive appropriation of its MLAs is the big issue of preventing equality and political collapse. In Manipur, which is in a leadership crisis.
