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‎Productivity

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‎No-confidence motions

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‎Debates

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‎Poems in the Parliament

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 Initially expected to end July 26, the Lok Sabha session was extended to August 7. Speaker Om Birla adjourned Lok Sabha a day early, calling this session “the most productive since 1952”.
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+Here’s a look at the history of general election and how the people have voted in India in previous elections.
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+India’s first Lok Sabha election after independence was conducted over four months in 1951-52 for 489 Lok Sabha seats.
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+The Indian National Congress (INC) won 364 seats and formed the government under the prime ministership of Jawaharlal Nehru. The Communist Party of India (CPI) stood second in the tally with 16 seats.
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	''No-confidence motions moved against the government in the parliament, 1966-2018''		''No-confidence motions moved against the government in the parliament, 1966-2018''
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		+	==1963-2018==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/article-share?article=27_07_2023_008_021_cap_TOI July 27, 2023: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	1. August 1963 \| The ﬁrst ever no-conﬁdence motion was moved in the third Lok Sabha in August 1963 against Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru by Congress leader Acharya Kripalani. This was immediately after losing to China in the 1962 war. The debate went on for four days, for over 20 hours. Eventually, the motion was defeated, with only 62 MPs supporting it and 347 opposing it
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		+	2. September 1964 \| A noconﬁdence motion was moved by N C Chatterjee against the government of Lal Bahadur Shastri. Voting took place on September 18, 1964, and 307 MPs voted against the motion while 50 voted for it. The motion was defeated
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		+	3. March 1965 \| The motion was moved by Kendrapara MP S N Dwivedy against Lal Bahadur Shastri government. Debate took place on March 16, 1965, and the motion was defeated with only 44 MPs supporting it, while 315 voted against it
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		+	4. August 1965 \| A no-conﬁdence motion was moved by erstwhile Swatantra Party MP MR Masani. Voting took place on August 26, 1965, and was negated with only 66 MPs supporting it, while 318 MPs opposed the motion
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		+	5. August 1966 \| Indira Gandhi, a Rajya Sabha MP at the time took over as the Prime Minister in January 1966. A no-conﬁdence motion against her government was moved by Communist Party of India MP Hirendranath Mukherjee. The motion was supported by 61 MPs, while 270 MPs opposed it and the motion was defeated
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		+	6. November 1966 \| Indira Gandhi’s government faced a second no-conﬁdence motion in a year, which was moved by UM Trivedi, noted lawyer and politician of Bharatiya Jan Sangh. The motion was defeated with 36 MPs supporting it, and 235 MPs voting against it
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		+	7. March 1976 \| In the fourth Lok Sabha, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had moved a no-conﬁdence motion against the Indira Gandhi government. The trust vote took place on March 20, 1967, and 162 MPs voted against the government, while 257 voted in support. This was the highest number of votes polled in support of a no-conﬁdence motion against the government till the time
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		+	8. November 1967 \| A noconﬁdence motion was moved by Madhu Limaye against the Indira Gandhi government. Voting took place on November 24, 1967, and was defeated with 88 MPs supporting it, and 215 MPs opposing it
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		+	9. February 1968 \| A noconﬁdence motion was moved by Balraj Madhok against the Indira Gandhi government. Voting took place on February 28, 1968, and was defeated with 75 MPs supporting it, and 215 MPs opposing it
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		+	10. November 1968 \| A no-conﬁdence motion was moved against the Indira Gandhi government by Bharatiya Jana Sangh’s Kanwar Lal Gupta. Voting took place on November 13, 1968, and was defeated with 90 MPs supporting it, and 222 opposing it
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		+	11. February 1969 \| A motion was moved against the government led by Indira Gandhi by Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader P Ramamurti. The motion was supported by 86 MPs, and opposed by 215 MPs. The motion was defeated
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		+	12. July 1970 \| A motion was moved against the Indira Gandhi government by Madhu Limaye. The motion got support of 137 MPs, and opposed by 243 MPs. The motion was defeated
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		+	13. November 1973 \| A motion was moved against the Indira Gandhi government by CPM MP Jyotirmoy Basu. The motion was defeated, with 251 MPs opposing it while 54 MPs supported it
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		+	14. May 1974 \| Jyotirmoy Basu again moved a motion against the Indira Gandhi government. The motion was defeated on May 10, 1974 by voice vote
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		+	15. July 1974 \| A no-conﬁdence motion was moved by Jyotirmoy Basu against the Indira Gandhi government. Voting took place on July 25, 1974, and was supported by 63 MPs while 297 opposed it. The motion was defeated
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		+	16. May 1975 \| A little more than a month before the Emergency was enforced on June 25, 1975, a no-conﬁdence motion was moved by Jyotirmoy Basu again. The motion was defeated by voice vote on May 9, 1975
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		+	17. May 1978 \| A no-conﬁdence motion was moved against the Morarji Desai government by then leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha C M Stephen. On May 11, 1978, the motion was defeated by voice vote
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		+	18. July 1979 \| A no-conﬁdence motion was moved against Morarji Desai government by YB Chavan. Even though the debate remained inconclusive, Desai resigned from his post and retired from politics. This was the only time a government fell following a noconﬁdence motion, even as there was no voting on the motion
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		+	19. May 1981 \| In the seventh Lok Sabha, a no-conﬁdence motion was move against Indira Gandhi government by George Fernandes. Voting took place on May 9, 1981. It was supported by 92 MPs and opposed by 278 MPs. The motion was defeated
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		+	20. September 1981 \| A motion against the Indira Gandhi government was moved by CPM MP Samar Mukherjee. Voting took place on September 17, 1981, and was supported by 86 MPs, while it was opposed by 297 MPs
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		+	21. August 1982 \| A no-conﬁdence motion was moved against Indira Gandhi government by HN Bahuguna, a former Congress leader who quit the party when Emergency was implemented. Voting took place on August 16, 1982, and was supported by 112 MPs while 333 opposed it. The motion was defeated
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		+	22. December 1987 \| A noconﬁdence motion was moved against the Rajiv Gandhi government by C. Madhava Reddy. On December 11, 1982, the motion was defeated by voice vote
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		+	23. July 1992 \| A no-conﬁdence motion was moved against the P V Narasimha Rao government by BJP’s Jaswant Singh. Voting took place on July 17, 1992. It was a close contest, with 225 MPs supporting it, while 271 MPs opposed it. The motion was defeated
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		+	24. December 1992 \| A second no-conﬁdence motion in that year was moved by Atal Bihari Vajpayee against the Narasimha Rao. Voting took place on December 21, 1992, after over 21 hours of debate. The motion was defeated with 111 MPs supporting it, and 336 MPs opposing it
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		+	25. July 1993 \| The third noconﬁdence motion in the Narasimha Rao government was moved by Ajoy Mukhopadhyay. After over 18 hours of debate, the motion was defeated, with 265 MPs opposing it, while 251 supported it
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−	~~==Poetry cited…==~~
−	~~===… in 2019===~~
−	~~[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/debates-in-lok-sabha-are-often-angry-but-they-could-be-verse/articleshow/73184937.cms Avijit Ghosh, January 11, 2020: ''The Times of India'']~~

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−	In fractious times like these, Parliament is often like a boxing ring where members trade punches every day. Thankfully, there’s often poetry to soften the blows. Last year, verse and worse flowed freely during the Budget and Winter sessions of the 17th Lok Sabha as poems, rhymes and film songs were reeled off with abandon in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, English, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit, Assamese and Nepali.
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−	Tulsidas, Amir Khusro, Rabindranath Tagore, Bharathiyar, Thiruvalluvar, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Mirza Ghalib, Rahat Indori, Bashir Badr and Dushyant Kumar were some of the poets heard in the Lower House in 2019. Some politicians also quoted from the Bhagwad Gita. One might recall that TMC MP Mohua Mitra’s speech last June, quoting Dinkar and Indori, had gone viral.  Among the more prolific in spouting poetry were SP Singh Baghel (constituency: Agra), Jitendra Singh (Udhampur), Saugata Roy (Dum Dum), Hansraj Hans (North-West Delhi), Meenakshi Lekhi (New Delhi), Sanghmitra Maurya (Badayun), Sunita Duggal (Sirsa) and Shashi Tharoor (Thiruvananthapuram). BJP’s Satyapal Singh from Baghpat quoted Sanksrit shlokas on 10 occasions during the winter session, as per information provided on the Lok Sabha website.
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−	Poems were often creatively used to make a serious point in an amusing way. Criticising the Modi government’s taxation proposal, Congress MP Tharoor modified and recited the following poem: “Tax his car, tax his wage / Tax his book on every page / Tax his fuel, his credit card / If he screams, tax him hard / Tax his newsprint, tax his drink / Tax him if he tries to think / Tax his bosses, tax his peers / If he cries, tax his tears / Tax his pay, tax his phone / Tax his house, tax his loan / If he thinks, this is a sin / Tell him, it is his achche din !” The poem drew uproarious laughter from the Opposition members.
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−	Speaking on water scarcity and stray cows in the Bundelkhand region, BJP’s Nishikant Dubey from Godda constituency recited the couplet of Urdu poet Bashir Badr: Agar fursat miley paani ki tehriron ko padh lena / Harek dariya hamare saalon ka afsana likhta hai (If you get the time read the writings on the water / Every river tells my story of decades).
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−	Badr, whose home was burnt down in the Meerut riots, was one of the more frequently quoted poets. Both PM Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had recited Badr’s poetry in 2018 during the 16th Lok Sabha. BJP MP Lekhi also quoted him rather cryptically: Ji bahut chahta hai ki sach bolein / Par kya karein hausla nahi hota (I really want to speak the truth / But what can I do, I don’t have the courage).
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−	Lok Sabha members found ways to reel off poetry even while discussing air pollution and climate change. Last November, DMK’s Thamizhachi Thangapandian recited the famous lines from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “Water, water, everywhere / And all the boards did shrink / Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink.” The poet-MP from South Chennai then proceeded to offer a more contemporary, take: “Air, air everywhere / Polluted, our lungs will shrink / Air, air, everywhere / Beware oxygen bars everywhere.”
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−	~~Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink, water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink.~~
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−	The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, too, produced its share of improvised and impassioned rhyme. Bhagwant Mann, AAP MP from Sangrur, recited the following lines: Lambe safar ko meelon mein mat baatiyein / Qaum ko kabilon mein mat baatiyein / Ek bahta dariya hai mera Bharatvarsh / Isko nadiyon aur jheelon mein mat baatiyein (Don’t reduce a long journey into a matter of miles / Don’t divide the nation into warring tribes / My country Bharatvarsh is like a flowing river / Don’t reduce it to a pond).
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−	Films songs, too, were often quoted to make an impression. Congress MP Mohd Sadiq quoted a song from the movie, Chandrakanta: “ Maine chand aur sitaron ki tamanna ki thi, mujhko raaton ke siyahi ke siwa kuchh na mila " (lyrics: Sahir). Sudhir Gupta, BJP MP from Mandsaur, sang the child-friendly track Rail gaadi, rail gaadi (film Aashirvaad, lyrics Harindranath Chattopadhyay) during the general budget discussion. Sunita Duggal recited Kisi ki muskurahaton (film Anari, lyrics Shailendra) around the same time.
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		+	[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/debates-in-lok-sabha-are-often-angry-but-they-could-be-verse/articleshow/73184937.cms Avijit Ghosh, January 11, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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		+
		+	In fractious times like these, Parliament is often like a boxing ring where members trade punches every day. Thankfully, there’s often poetry to soften the blows. Last year, verse and worse flowed freely during the Budget and Winter sessions of the 17th Lok Sabha as poems, rhymes and film songs were reeled off with abandon in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, English, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit, Assamese and Nepali.
		+
		+	Tulsidas, Amir Khusro, Rabindranath Tagore, Bharathiyar, Thiruvalluvar, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Mirza Ghalib, Rahat Indori, Bashir Badr and Dushyant Kumar were some of the poets heard in the Lower House in 2019. Some politicians also quoted from the Bhagwad Gita. One might recall that TMC MP Mohua Mitra’s speech last June, quoting Dinkar and Indori, had gone viral.  Among the more prolific in spouting poetry were SP Singh Baghel (constituency: Agra), Jitendra Singh (Udhampur), Saugata Roy (Dum Dum), Hansraj Hans (North-West Delhi), Meenakshi Lekhi (New Delhi), Sanghmitra Maurya (Badayun), Sunita Duggal (Sirsa) and Shashi Tharoor (Thiruvananthapuram). BJP’s Satyapal Singh from Baghpat quoted Sanksrit shlokas on 10 occasions during the winter session, as per information provided on the Lok Sabha website.
		+
		+	Poems were often creatively used to make a serious point in an amusing way. Criticising the Modi government’s taxation proposal, Congress MP Tharoor modified and recited the following poem: “Tax his car, tax his wage / Tax his book on every page / Tax his fuel, his credit card / If he screams, tax him hard / Tax his newsprint, tax his drink / Tax him if he tries to think / Tax his bosses, tax his peers / If he cries, tax his tears / Tax his pay, tax his phone / Tax his house, tax his loan / If he thinks, this is a sin / Tell him, it is his achche din !” The poem drew uproarious laughter from the Opposition members.
		+
		+	Speaking on water scarcity and stray cows in the Bundelkhand region, BJP’s Nishikant Dubey from Godda constituency recited the couplet of Urdu poet Bashir Badr: Agar fursat miley paani ki tehriron ko padh lena / Harek dariya hamare saalon ka afsana likhta hai (If you get the time read the writings on the water / Every river tells my story of decades).
		+
		+	Badr, whose home was burnt down in the Meerut riots, was one of the more frequently quoted poets. Both PM Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had recited Badr’s poetry in 2018 during the 16th Lok Sabha. BJP MP Lekhi also quoted him rather cryptically: Ji bahut chahta hai ki sach bolein / Par kya karein hausla nahi hota (I really want to speak the truth / But what can I do, I don’t have the courage).
		+
		+	Lok Sabha members found ways to reel off poetry even while discussing air pollution and climate change. Last November, DMK’s Thamizhachi Thangapandian recited the famous lines from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “Water, water, everywhere / And all the boards did shrink / Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink.” The poet-MP from South Chennai then proceeded to offer a more contemporary, take: “Air, air everywhere / Polluted, our lungs will shrink / Air, air, everywhere / Beware oxygen bars everywhere.”
		+
		+	Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink, water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink.
		+
		+	The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, too, produced its share of improvised and impassioned rhyme. Bhagwant Mann, AAP MP from Sangrur, recited the following lines: Lambe safar ko meelon mein mat baatiyein / Qaum ko kabilon mein mat baatiyein / Ek bahta dariya hai mera Bharatvarsh / Isko nadiyon aur jheelon mein mat baatiyein (Don’t reduce a long journey into a matter of miles / Don’t divide the nation into warring tribes / My country Bharatvarsh is like a flowing river / Don’t reduce it to a pond).
		+
		+	Films songs, too, were often quoted to make an impression. Congress MP Mohd Sadiq quoted a song from the movie, Chandrakanta: “ Maine chand aur sitaron ki tamanna ki thi, mujhko raaton ke siyahi ke siwa kuchh na mila " (lyrics: Sahir). Sudhir Gupta, BJP MP from Mandsaur, sang the child-friendly track Rail gaadi, rail gaadi (film Aashirvaad, lyrics Harindranath Chattopadhyay) during the general budget discussion. Sunita Duggal recited Kisi ki muskurahaton (film Anari, lyrics Shailendra) around the same time.
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