India watching us for a constructive debate: PM Narendra Modi urges parties

Just hours before the no-confidence motion debate in Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged all the parties for a disruption-free and constructive debate in the House. Terming the day 'important' Prime Minister Modi urged the fellow parliamentarians to rise the occasion and have a constructive debate. "Today is an important day in our Parliamentary democracy. I am sure my fellow MP colleagues will rise to the occasion and ensure a constructive, comprehensive and disruption free debate," Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted.


Prime Minister Modi said lawmakers owe this to the people and the makers of the Constitution. "India will be watching us closely," he said.


Meanwhile, taking a dig at Congress President Rahul Gandhi, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav tweeted, "Congress would have 38 minutes for an earthquake in the House."



The ruling BJP has got 3 hour 33 minutes in the seven hours debate in the Lok Sabha while Congress has got 38 minutes.

The Modi government is expected to have a smooth sailing during the first no-confidence motion in four years. Party enjoys the majority on 273 MPs on its own. The party is seeking to expand the votes to over 300 with the help of NDA parties.

Though the numbers are heavily stacked against the opposition, the Congress and other parties have indicated that they are keen to utilise the debate to attack the government on a range of of issues including farm distress, slow economic growth and rising incidents of lynching.

The NDA last faced the no-confidence motion under the leadership of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2003. The Vajpayee-led Government had defeated the motion with an overwhelming majority.

(Inputs from PTI & ANI)