The no-confidence motion, brought by the main opposition Congress against the Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government in the 90-member Haryana assembly, has been defeated on Wednesday.
According to media reports, leader of opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda moved the no-confidence motion against the government over the ongoing farmers protests. The Congress leader had claimed that the ruling dispensation has lost people's trust.
In the 90-member assembly, currently having an effective strength of 88 members, the ruling BJP has 40 members, the JJP 10 and the Congress 30. Seven are Independents, five of whom are supporting the government, while one member is of the Haryana Lokhit Party, who has also extended support to the government.
While all the Congress MLAs supported the motion, the JJP and BJP MLAs voted against it. The no-confidence motion was supported by 32 members and opposed by 55 members, Speaker Gian Chand Gupta announced.
Earlier, defending the farm laws in the state assembly, CM Khattar said his government would do everything possible to support farmers if the latter feel that their interests are compromised after the implementation of the three farm laws.
He also assured that mandis will not be discontinued and the MSP will continue. The CM accused the opposition Congress of provoking farmers and misguiding them saying once these laws are implemented, they would lose their income and land.
The CM further said the Congress will continue to sink and the party's political future is about to end.
Moving the motion, Hooda had said the situation is such that ruling party MLAs cannot even visit their constituencies. "This government has lost the confidence of people. Their MLAs cannot go in their constituencies," he had claimed.
He said farmers from several states, including Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, are sitting on various border points of Delhi.
Hooda said it was the BJP-JJP government which stopped farmers, used water cannons and even dug roads so that they could not march towards Delhi in November.
"The government should know it cannot break farmers by such tactics," he said.
Independent MLA Nayan Pal Rawat, who is supporting the government, hit out at the Congress, alleging "everyone knows that in the name of change of land use, the land of farmers was snatched. They looted farmers with both hands. It is Narendra Modi and Khattar who took steps for peasants welfare and in this context these farm laws were brought."
—With PTI inputs
