Congress holding a meeting ahead of Monsoon Session of Orissa Assembly on Monday in Bhubaneswar.
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Bhubaneswar ( Orissa) :Opposition Congress has announced that it could bring a no-confidence motion against Naveen Patnaik Government during the monsoon session of the Assembly beginning on Wednesday.
Leader of Opposition J B Patnaik took the decesion at the Congress Legislature Party meeting chaired here.
In the 147-member Orissa Assembly, the BJD-BJP combine had a majority with 93 members, while only 38 members belong to the Opposition Congress.
While CPI and CPI (M) had one member each, NCP had two members and 4 others belong to JMM, there were 8 Independent members.
Interestingly, Congress was not sure whether the members of the CPI, CPI (M) and JMM would support its motion.
“We could move a no-confidence motion in the house,” the former Orissa Chief Minister JB told www.odishatoday.com on Tuesday.
“We know that we don’t have the figure to defeat the Government but we could move the motion,” the Leader of Opposition added.
The Government has failed to contain Maoists, supply fertiliser to farmers and indulged in petty politics in the name of distributing rice at Rs 2 per kg, CLP meeting noted.
The Opposition however alleged that the Public Distribution System (PDS) has completely collapsed in the state due to hoarding of essential commodities, adding that the State Government had also misused the centrally-sponscored Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyut Karan Yojana (RGGVKY).
