Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah (R) shows victory sign as he comes out of Indian Parliament House after defeating a no-confidence motion in New Delhi, India, July 20, 2018. The no-confidence motion introduced by opposition political parties against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi government was defeated in the parliament's lower house Lok Sabha late on Friday night. (Xinhua/Partha Sarkar)
New Delhi, July 20 (Xinhua) -- The no-confidence motion introduced by opposition political parties against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi government was defeated in the parliament's lower house Lok Sabha late on Friday night.
Division of votes over the no-confidence motion took place at around 11:10 p.m. on Thursday after a debate that lasted for more than 12 hours.
While the government got the support of 325 lawmakers, the opposition parties could muster the backing of only 126 lawmakers, out of the total 451 lawmakers who were present and voted.
This was the first no-confidence motion which Modi government faced from the opposition parties in more than four years of its existence.
The no-confidence motion was brought in by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the ruling party in southern state of Andhra Pradesh, and supported by other opposition parties, including the main opposition party the Indian National Congress (INC).
The southern state had witnessed a bifurcation in 2014 and a separate state of Telangana was carved out of it. Since then, the TDP lawmakers had been demanding a special financial package from the Modi government for the reorganisation of the state.
After waiting for over four years, the TDP lawmakers introduced the no-confidence motion against the Modi government in a bid to expose its failure of not giving the special financial package.
