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No Confidence Motion Against BJP Government Defeated in India's Lok Sabha

Opposition parties, including the Congress Party, introduced the no-confidence motion against the federal government on July 26 over ethnic clashes in the country's Manipur state.
Sputnik
The no-confidence motion moved by a group of opposition parties against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government fell flat in the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) on Thursday.
With Speaker Om Birla calling for a voice vote on the matter, the opposition suffered an expected defeat as it did not have the numbers in the house where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies have a majority.

Why the Motion Against the Government

The opposition parties planned the move to force PM Modi to speak on the Manipur crisis, fully aware of the fact that they had no chance of defeating the government in parliament as the numbers were stacked against them.
For nearly three months, Manipur has witnessed ethnic violence between the Kuki tribal community and the state's largest ethnic group Meiteis.
Over 150 people have been killed, and thousands have been displaced in Manipur due to the ongoing violence.
Opposition politicians, including former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, have criticized both the state and the federal government's handling of the violence.
The government, however, has repeatedly denied being to blame, underlining that it was doing everything possible in its capacity, including sending central forces to bring peace to the state.
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