{"id":36553,"date":"2023-07-27T07:47:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T02:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=36553"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:43:50","slug":"what-is-a-no-confidence-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-no-confidence-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a No Confidence Motion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is a No-Confidence Motion?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Who can move a No-Confidence Motion?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How is a No-Confidence Motion Debated and Voted?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What happens if the Government wins the vote on the No-Confidence Motion?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How many No-Confidence Motions have been introduced since Independence?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has admitted a no-confidence motion against the ruling government.<\/li>\n<li>The motion was proposed by Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, on behalf of opposition parties of I.N.D.I.A alliance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What is a No-Confidence Motion?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In a parliamentary democracy, a government can be in power only if it commands a majority in the directly elected House.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Article 75(3)<\/strong> of the Constitution embodies this rule by specifying that the Council of Ministers are collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha.<\/li>\n<li>For testing this collective responsibility, the <strong>rules of Lok Sabha provide a particular mechanism \u2013 a motion of no-confidence<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>The procedure is specified under Rule 198 of the Lok Sabha. The <strong><u>Constitution does not mention either a Confidence or a No Confidence Motion<\/u><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Who can move a No-Confidence Motion?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Any Lok Sabha MP, who can garner the support of 50 colleagues, can, at any point of time, introduce a motion of no-confidence against the Council of Ministers.<\/li>\n<li>A no-confidence motion <strong>can be moved only in the Lok Sabha<\/strong>. It cannot be moved in the Rajya Sabha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>How is a No-Confidence Motion Debated and Voted?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The motion is moved by the member who submitted it, and the government will then respond to the motion.<\/li>\n<li>The opposition parties will then have the opportunity to speak on the motion.<\/li>\n<li>After the debate, the Lok Sabha will vote on the no-confidence motion.<\/li>\n<li>The motion will be passed if it is supported by a majority of the members of the House.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If a no-confidence motion is passed, the government must resign<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What happens if the Government wins the vote on the No-Confidence Motion?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If the government wins the vote on the no-confidence motion, the motion is defeated and the government remains in power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>How many No-Confidence Motions have been introduced since Independence?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>There have been <strong>27 no-confidence motions introduced in the Lok Sabha since independence<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The first no-confidence motion against the administration of the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was presented in the Lok Sabha in August 1963.<\/li>\n<li>The motion obtained only 62 votes in favor and 347 votes against it.<\/li>\n<li>The last no-confidence motion was moved in 2018 against the then NDA government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/everyday-explainers\/no-confidence-motion-8860985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong><u>ET<\/u><\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0I\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/how-to\/what-is-no-confidence-motion-what-happens-when-it-is-accepted-by-lok-sabha-speaker\/articleshow\/102132503.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong><u>ET<\/u><\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A no-confidence motion is a move by an Opposition party to challenge the ruling party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}