Chandigarh: The Manohar Lal Khattar government in Haryana comfortably defeated the no-confidence motion brought up by the Congress Party over the ongoing farmers’ protest against the farm laws, on March 10, 2021.
The coalition government of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janta Party secured 55 votes against the Opposition’s 32 in the 90-member House whose effective strength has actually got reduced to 88 after two seats had fallen vacant. The Haryana Lokhit Party MLA Gopal Kanda too voted in support of the government.
This was the first trial of strength in the Haryana House ever since the coalition government assumed power in the state on October 27, 2019 following a fractured mandate in which the BJP could secure 40 seats and had to join hands with JJJ whose 10 members as well as the support of seven independents, enabled Khattar continue as CM for the second successive term.
The Congress, which has 30 MLAs, had said that the purpose of moving the no-confidence motion was to let people know which MLAs stood with the farmers, and who took the side of the government.
