The no-confidence motion brought by the Congress, the main opposition group in the Haryana assembly was defeated on Thursday after the Congress MLAs walked out of the House following a four-hour long debate. The leader of opposition in the state assembly while talking to media persons said that BJP members had started personal attacks on their party members in the house which compelled the Congress MLAs to walk out of the House following a four-hour long debate. The motion was expected to fall as the ruling BJP-JJP alliance has 51 MLAs and support of at least six Independents and one HLP MLA in the 90-member House.
However, since the Congress legislators decided to walk out of the House before the speaker could put the question and invite MLAs who were in favour or against the motion, the no-trust vote became an insignificant formality. Congress . Former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that since the CM did not respond to the issues raised by the MLAs of his party during the debate there was no point carrying on. According to information, this was the second no-trust vote brought by the Congress since March 2021. when the BJP-JJP alliance government had easily avoided the 2021 no-confidence motion getting the votes of 55 MLAs out of 87 present and voting.
At the start of the two-hour debate on the motion, Congress MLAs Bharat Bhushan Batra, Varun Chaudhary, Shamsher Singh Gogi, and Geeta Bhukkal spoke about various issues including the ongoing farmers protest and sought a solution to the issues raised by them, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act against Maman Khan MLA from Nuh, about the appointment of an outsider as Haryana Public Service Commission chairperson, the 75% reservation in private jobs for locals from Haryana law which was quashed by the high court in November 2023, issue of crime rate against women was highest in Haryana with increasing kidnapping and abduction cases in Haryana, the crime rate against children and senior citizens was third highest in Haryana.
The only INLD MLA, Abhay Singh Chautala questioned the need of bringing a no-confidence motion as the BJP-JJP alliance government has already lost the confidence of the people in the state long back because of ruling government as many as 750 farmers had lost their lives in the farmers’ agitation and now the similar situation is emerging again.In his response, Khattar said that such incidents take place in every government, but such malafide acts are much below that the previous government rule in the state. CM Khattar said that Congress has a long history of scams in the country as well as in the state when ruling in Haryana including the AJL land probe, industrial plots allotment and said that those who live in the glass houses should not throw stones at others. Hooda said that BJP should wait for another six months, and the people of the state will give them a fitting reply. However, the Congress MLAs led by Hooda then walked out of the House. Dushyant Chautala said that it was well known that the Congress MLAs will run away from the House. The chief minister then asked the speaker that the no-confidence motion should be rejected unanimously.
