UPA Government Wins Trust Vote In Lok Sabha - NDTV.com
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 (New Delhi)
Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night became the seventh Prime Minister in nearly three decades to win a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.
Of the 10 trust votes taken in the past 29 years, the government of the day won six. In two cases each, the incumbent prime ministers were defeated and resigned without facing the House.
The first time the need for a trust vote arose was in 1979 when Charan Singh was the Prime Minister after an earlier split in the Janata Party. Sensing he did not have the requisite numbers, Charan Singh did not even come to the House to face a confidence motion and resigned.
The next time a trust vote was moved in the Lok Sabha was a decade later when V P Singh became the Prime Minister in December 1989. He won but stepped down a year later after the Congress joined hands with the BJP to ensure his government's fall.
Chandra Shekhar, who succeeded Singh, won a trust motion in November 1990 but resigned five months later after the Congress party under Rajiv Gandhi withdrew its support to the government over spying charges.
P V Narasimha Rao won a confidence vote in July 1993. His government lasted a full five-year term.
H D Deve Gowda won a trust motion in June 1996 but lost in April 1997 when the Congress withdrew its support to his government.
I K Gujral, who succeeded Gowda, won a vote of confidence in April 1997 but resigned in November after losing majority support.
In 1996, Atal Behari Vajpayee resigned on the floor of the House before the confidence motion could be put to vote, admitting he did not have the numbers in his favour. However, he won a trust vote in May 1998 but lost a year later by a single vote after the AIADMK withdrew support.
Vajpayee thus became the only Prime Minister to have lost a confidence vote twice.
In 2004, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not have to move a confidence motion as he was assured of majority with outside support of the Left. The same Left now forced him to seek a vote of confidence after 50 months in power.
Thanking the UPA leadership and its constituents for a ''convincing'' victory in the trust vote, a beaming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night said whatever is necessary under the law will be done on charges of bribing MPs.
''Whatever necessary in accordance with the provisions of the law will be done,'' Singh said in the Parliament complex.
He was replying to a question on the cross-voting and charges of bribery.
The Prime Minister said ''these developments (bribery charges) made me extremly sad, if true,''. He said the government would cooperate to see that ''the truth is established''.
The Prime Minister said he was ''extremely grateful'' to the members of Parliament for giving ''a convincing victory''.
''This vote gives a clear message to the world that India's head and heart are sound and India is prepared to take its rightful place in the comity of nations,'' Singh said.
He particularly thanked UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, leaders of the UPA and all those who worked for the victory.
source: NDTV.com
Of the 10 trust votes taken in the past 29 years, the government of the day won six. In two cases each, the incumbent prime ministers were defeated and resigned without facing the House.
The first time the need for a trust vote arose was in 1979 when Charan Singh was the Prime Minister after an earlier split in the Janata Party. Sensing he did not have the requisite numbers, Charan Singh did not even come to the House to face a confidence motion and resigned.
The next time a trust vote was moved in the Lok Sabha was a decade later when V P Singh became the Prime Minister in December 1989. He won but stepped down a year later after the Congress joined hands with the BJP to ensure his government's fall.
Chandra Shekhar, who succeeded Singh, won a trust motion in November 1990 but resigned five months later after the Congress party under Rajiv Gandhi withdrew its support to the government over spying charges.
P V Narasimha Rao won a confidence vote in July 1993. His government lasted a full five-year term.
H D Deve Gowda won a trust motion in June 1996 but lost in April 1997 when the Congress withdrew its support to his government.
I K Gujral, who succeeded Gowda, won a vote of confidence in April 1997 but resigned in November after losing majority support.
In 1996, Atal Behari Vajpayee resigned on the floor of the House before the confidence motion could be put to vote, admitting he did not have the numbers in his favour. However, he won a trust vote in May 1998 but lost a year later by a single vote after the AIADMK withdrew support.
Vajpayee thus became the only Prime Minister to have lost a confidence vote twice.
In 2004, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not have to move a confidence motion as he was assured of majority with outside support of the Left. The same Left now forced him to seek a vote of confidence after 50 months in power.
Thanking the UPA leadership and its constituents for a ''convincing'' victory in the trust vote, a beaming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night said whatever is necessary under the law will be done on charges of bribing MPs.
''Whatever necessary in accordance with the provisions of the law will be done,'' Singh said in the Parliament complex.
He was replying to a question on the cross-voting and charges of bribery.
The Prime Minister said ''these developments (bribery charges) made me extremly sad, if true,''. He said the government would cooperate to see that ''the truth is established''.
The Prime Minister said he was ''extremely grateful'' to the members of Parliament for giving ''a convincing victory''.
''This vote gives a clear message to the world that India's head and heart are sound and India is prepared to take its rightful place in the comity of nations,'' Singh said.
He particularly thanked UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, leaders of the UPA and all those who worked for the victory.
source: NDTV.com
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