Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the no-confidence motion against the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government was a futile approach by the opposition parties.
While addressing a press conference, Sitharaman said, “The opposition parties went ahead with their display of frustration even in the Parliament and called for a no-confidence motion against the government.
“The two conditions in bringing the no-confidence motion against the ruling party are, first, if the government has lost its majority, and, second, if the party has become a matter of worry for the public. There were no such conditions whatsoever.”
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Sitharaman also took a potshot at the opposition by saying that they are resorting to disrupt politics and are deceiving the citizens at large.
“Even when we won the no-trust vote in the Parliament, the opposition was in a denial mode and claimed that they never disputed our numbers in the Lok Sabha. This clears our doubt that the opposition parties are resorting to nothing but disrupt politics and are not representing the voice of the citizens.”
Calling the grand-alliance by the opposition nothing but an eye-wash, the defence minister in her scathing attack said, “The party chief (Amit Shah) has called the Mahagatbandhan an eyewash, mirage and a lie. He said that the parties which have formed the grand alliance have already been defeated by the BJP even after 2014. The alliance will not make any difference at all.”
The Narendra Modi led government earlier in July passed the no-confidence motion with an overwhelming majority of 325 out of a total 451 votes.
(With ANI Inputs)