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SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION BEGINS TODAY
TO TRUST OR NOT TO TRUST? TWIN MOTIONS
IN A SINGLE DAY BY CONG & BJP IN RAJ!
Guv Kalraj Mishra to inaugurate session today; expected to be stormy Gehlot-Pilot shake hands as govt readies to face a floor test today!
—PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR
Aditi Nagar & Naresh Sharma
Narendra Tomar, Satish Poonia at BJP office.
Selfie time: Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot & KC Venugopal.
BJP to move noconfidence motion against Cong govt
United Congress to move confidence motion in House
Jaipur: The BJP in Rajasthan will move a motion of no confidence against the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in the state assembly, leader of opposition Gulab Chand Kataria said. The decision was taken in a BJP legislature party meeting held in jaipur on Thursday. After the meeting, Kataria told reporters that the motion will be moved in the assembly session be-
ginning Friday. He said proposal was being finalised. Coronavirus cases are on the rise and the law and order situation is badly deteriorating. Attempts were made to link those, who were arrested by the SOG over allegations of conspiring to topple the government, with BJP but the government failed in this. We will mention all these issues in the proposal, he said.
Jaipur: The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government will move a confidence motion in the Rajasthan Assembly during the session beginning Friday, a party leader said. This was announced on Thursday at the Congress Legislature Party meeting chaired by Gehlot. Meanwhile, Gehlot said, “We could have proved the majority even without these 19
MLAs (Sachin Pilot & 18 MLAs who were supporting him) but it would not have given us happiness. We will bring Vote of Confidence.” The session comes days after the top leadership of the Congress announced the return of Sachin Pilot and 18 other dissident MLAs to the party-fold. The party has 107 MLAs in the 200 member assembly.
Jaipur: It was a contrasting picture on Thursday when after almost a month, the ‘Generals’ of two ‘warring sections’ —CM Ashok Gehlot and former deputy CM Sachin Pilot—came face to face at CMR. However, this was not a face-off between the two leaders, rather a reconciliation meet between the two giants. The moment, which was awaited by all in the Congress party came on Thursday with Sachin Pilot shaking hands on with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, the image marking the patch-up between the two party factions in the state ahead of the assembly session where the Congress
A RARE HANDSHAKE IN TIME OF CORONA CM Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot shake hands while KC Venugopal looks on at CMR in Jaipur on Thursday.
government is set to face a floor test. With the disgruntled MLAs led by Pilot back in the party-fold following the intervention of the top leadership, the
Congress is likely to pass the floor test. Interestingly, when Pilot got down from his car at CMR, he was received by Govind Singh Dotasra, who has re-
placed him as the party’s state unit president. Pilot and Dotasra shook hands, and the leaders posed together for the cameras. Turn on P6
PM launches country’s first taxpayers’ charter New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled country’s first charter of taxpayers’ rights and duties and evoked a national appeal ahead of 74th Independence Day by asking citizens to introspect the fact that only 15 million in a population of 1.3 billion Indians actually pay income-tax. PM said taxation reforms in last six years are centred on three concepts -- seamless, painless and faceless –
Amit Shah @AmitShah Modi govt has taken several landmark decisions to empower and honor the honest taxpayers who are the backbone of India’s progress & development.This platform is another step towards PM @narendramodi ji’s resolve of ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’. #HonoringTheHonest that have reduced complexities, cut tax rates and decreased number of litigations. It made the system more trans-
parent, better compliant and trusting taxpayers, which helped in raising the number of income-tax return fil-
ers by 25 million. Currently, there are about 70 million income-tax returns filers. Only 1.5 crore people
pay the taxes in a country of 130 crores, he said urging people to introspect themselves and come forward to pay the taxes due. “When the life of an honest taxpayer of the country becomes easy, he moves forward. Then the country also develops and leaps forward,” said the Prime Minister while launching the platform ‘Transparent Taxation -- Honouring the Honest’ through video conferencing. Turn on P6
READY FOR I-DAY An illuminated view of the Raisina hills ahead of the Independence day celebration, at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI
BJP to gain ‘confidence’ through no-confidence?
What comes first? Confidence vote or a no-confidence vote!
In 200-member Raj Assembly, 101 is the majority mark. BJP is far short of it with 75 MLAs
First India Bureau
Aishwary Pradhan Jaipur: The BJP, in a strategic move, has decided to call for the NoConfidence motion in Gehlot government in the Assembly session starting Friday. While the development is sure to bring about some ‘fireworks’ in the House, the BJP’s move is not easily un-
derstood in the current scheme of things. After all, BJP had previously said that it would consider bringing in a no-confidence motion only once it was needed. Since Pilot camp has rejoined the government, BJP’s ‘googly’ is not easily understood. This becomes all the more difficult to com-
Gulab Chand Kataria & Satish Poonia
prehend since Gehlot now has a substantial majority of 125 MLAs
and therefore the next question is what could be BJP’s ‘endgame’ in
bringing the motion. Is this No Confidence in Gehlot government, a bid to unify its own ‘House’? Political observers believe that this could be a reason for bringing the motion since in the last few days of the political crisis, there were rumors that even Saffron party’s MLAs were ‘flinching’. Hence this no-confidence motion could be BJP’s way of instilling ‘confidence’ in its own MLAs. Interestingly, for-
mer Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje had a pivotal role in getting the leadership to understand the need for the no-confidence motion since it would give the BJP, the platform to recount the failures of the government in the House. Even if nothing comes out of it, it will at least make good headlines in the media which will create a buzz for the BJP. Therefore, the No Confidence motion will not be a bad deal for the BJP.
Jaipur: Meanwhile there is confusion prevailing over confidence motion by Congress and no confidence motion by BJP. The question being widely discussed is whose motion should be discussed and put to vote first in the House. Whether the confidence motion by Gehlot govt should get a priority for discussion and vote or BJP’s no confidence motion requiring the govt put up a reply first. Constitutional experts are
of the opinion that as per the tradition the govt’s motion of confidence should be discussed and put to vote first. They say that the voting on the govt’s confidence motion should be deemed also to have voted on Opposition’s no confidence motion too. Although the final word in the matter will come from the seat of the Assembly Speaker. Meanwhile, the BSP once again issued whip for its six MLAs while directing them to vote for the Turn on P6