‘There’s No Get together Whip’: What BJD’s Stand On Waqf Invoice Voting Might Imply In Rajya Sabha Numbers Sport – News18
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The BJD’s transfer has made the numbers’ sport fascinating within the Decrease Home of Parliament, the place the federal government enjoys a slim majority. Naveen Patnaik’s get together might play a sport changer if any BJP ally takes a U-turn on the invoice on the eleventh hour
The Waqf invoice has already been handed by the Lok Sabha and it was tabled in Rajya Sabha on Thursday. (Photograph: PTI file)
In a shocking transfer, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday stated it has not issued any get together whip, giving its seven Rajya Sabha MPs to vote as per their “conscience” in the course of the voting on the Waqf modification invoice.
The BJD’s transfer has made the numbers’ sport fascinating within the Decrease Home of Parliament, the place the federal government enjoys a slim majority. Naveen Patnaik’s get together might play a sport changer if any BJP ally takes a U-turn on the invoice on the eleventh hour.
BJD MP and get together spokesperson Sasmit Patra stated that the Biju Janata Dal has all the time upheld the ideas of secularism and inclusivity, guaranteeing the rights of all communities.
After cautious consideration of various sentiments of the Minority communities relating to the Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2024, Patra stated that his get together has entrusted its Rajya Sabha members with the accountability of “exercising their conscience in the very best curiosity of justice, concord and the rights of all communities”.
Though the BJD was not the a part of the NDA on the Centre, Naveen Patnaik’s get together voted for the federal government on key payments together with now-scrapped three farmers payments and the Citizenship Modification Act when the BJP-led alliance didn’t have the bulk in Rajya Sabha. Nevertheless, the BJP’s sweeping victory in Odisha meeting elections final yr, has made the BJD to hitch the opposition towards the federal government.
Rajya Sabha Numbers’ Sport
The Waqf invoice has already been handed by the Lok Sabha and it was tabled in Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
Presently, the Rajya Sabha’s energy is 236, so the ruling NDA wants 119 MPs for a majority. Nevertheless, the NDA is safe with 123 MPs, comprising 98 from the BJP, 4 from the JD(U), two from the TDP, three from the NCP, and one every from ten different alliance events.
In distinction, the opposition INDIA bloc has 88 MPs within the Higher Home: Congress (27), Trinamool Congress (13), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Aam Aadmi Get together (10 every), Rashtriya Janata Dal (5), Samajwadi Get together and CPI-M (4 every), Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (three), amongst others.
Moreover, there are 23 MPs from events which can be neither a part of the NDA nor the INDIA bloc.
