Speaking during no-trust debate in the Lok Sabha, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Friday that farmers and Dalits are the victims of BJP’s ‘jumla strike’.
“I heard everything (Jayadev) Galla said very carefully. I sensed anxiety and a deep feeling of pain, and I want to tell you that from here, you are the victim of a 21st century political weapon. There are many such victims like you. It’s called the ‘jhumla strike’. The farmers and Dalits are victims of this jhumla strike,” Gandhi said.
The Lok Sabha today took up for debate the no-trust vote against the Narendra Modi government, the first since the BJP-led dispensation came to power four years ago.
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Telugu Desam Party's Jayadev Galla initiated the discussion on the no-confidence motion.
Opposition parties have brought the motion against the government on several issues like special status to Andhra Pradesh, cow vigilantism, lynchings, atrocities against women and Dalits and alleged dilution of the SC/ST Act.
In a House of 535 members, the ruling National Democratic Alliance has 313 members in the Lok Sabha, including 274 (including the Speaker) of BJP, 18 of Shiv Sena, six LJP and four SAD.
The stated strength of the Opposition is 222, including 63 of the Congress-led UPA, 37 of AIADMK, 34 of TMC, 20 BJD, 16 TDP and 11 TRS.
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The opposition move for a no-confidence motion was not allowed in the last Budget Session that was washed out due to continued uproar by TDP, TRS and some other parties demanding that government agree to the motion.
