The Opposition Congress here on Wednesday decided to move no-trust motion against the Raman Singh government, which enjoys a wafer thin majority in the Chhattisgarh Assembly, during the Winter Session of the House beginning on Thursday.
The Congress Legislature Party, which met here to give final shape to the party’s strategy to counter the BJP government during the short session scheduled to end on December 23, took the decision to table no-confidence motion against the state BJP government, CLP leader Ravindra Choubey told reporters after the meeting here.
This will be the second no-trust motion to be faced by the Raman Singh government, which enjoys a slender majority with 49 members as against 39 Congress MLAs in the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly. The BSP, an ally of Congress, has two MLAs.
Congress sources claimed that the party was in touch with at least 17 ruling BJP MLAs to elicit their support to the no-trust motion. Besides, the Opposition party was also confident of BSP’s support to the motion.
“The Congress sponsored no-trust motion may put the BJP government in deep trouble. We are quite hopeful of engineering a split in the ruling bench during a division on the motion because of strong resentment of a sizeable number of BJP MLAs against the style of functioning of the chief minister,” a senior Congress leader told this newspaper.
State parliamentary affairs minister Brij Mohan Agrawal, however, said, “We have enough strength to protect our government.”