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No-Trust Vote: Why Congress gets 38 min to debate but BJP 3.33 hrs?

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The time allotted to political parties to debate the no confidence motion on Friday may seem lop-sided, but there is a logic and rationale behind. While the BJP has been given 3 hours 33 minutes to to put their point of view across the Congress has been allotted 38 minutes.

Time is assigned to various parties in proportion to the number of seats they have in the Lok Sabha. Seven hours have been set aside for the debate which will begin at 11 am and go on without the lunch break. Thereafter voting on the no-confidence motion will commence, the first in 15 years.

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Based on this rationale AIADMK has got 29 minutes, TMC-27 minutes, BJD-15, Shiv Sena-14, TDP-13, TRS-9, CPI(M)-7 minutes, SP- 6 minutes, NCP- 6 minutes, LJSP-5 minutes.

Besides PM Modi, who will take the floor just before the vote, Rahul Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia are likely to take part in the debate. The vote, is likely to be opened by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), whose motion for no-confidence was accepted by the Speaker on Wednesday.

Rahul Gandhi will be the first speaker of the Congress at the debate preceding the no-confidence motion tomorrow in parliament.

With 48 members in the Lok Sabha, the Congress has been allotted 38 minutes. It may not translate to many speakers but the party is hinging on its chief Rahul Gandhi’s performance.

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In the last session, Rahul Gandhi had famously commented that if he spoke for 15 minutes in the house, it would cause an earthquake.

With the BJP-led government very confident of winning the no-confidence motion comfortably, both the ruling party and the opposition will use this as a chance to score political points in an election year – three crucial Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

In the Budget Session, the Parliament secretariat had received three notices on a no-confidence motion against the Centre for its refusal to grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh.

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