Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over a meeting with senior ministers on Wednesday to discuss the government’s strategy for the ongoing Monsoon session of Parliament.

The Aam Aadmi Party has referred to the Delhi services bill as the “most undemocratic” piece of legislation.

Lok Sabha will likewise introduce the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023. Today, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will introduce the ‘Inter-Services Organisations (Command, Control, and Discipline) Bill, 2023’ in Lok Sabha.

In the Lok Sabha, Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Mansukh Mandaviya will introduce the ‘Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the ‘Pharmacy (Amendment) Bill, 2023, respectively. To amend the Advocates Act of 1961, Union Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal will introduce the Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2023 for consideration and passage in Rajya Sabha.

Anurag Thakur, minister of information and broadcasting, will introduce the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023 in the Senate.

Today, I.N.D.I.A. floor leaders will meet in Parliament.

The floor leaders of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc of the Opposition will conduct a meeting in Parliament on Wednesday to devise a strategy for the floor of the house in light of the Manipur issue, which has caused continuous disruptions of the Monsoon session since it began.

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The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance floor leaders will convene at 10 a.m. in the office of Rajya Sabha Opposition Leader Mallikarjun Kharge.

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What is a vote of no confidence?

A motion of no confidence can only be introduced in the Lok Sabha, and by any member of the House. Before 10 a.m., the member must submit a written notice of the motion, and at least 50 members must accept it. The Speaker will then determine when the motion will be discussed.

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A government can only function if it can demonstrate majority support in the Lok Sabha; if it cannot do so, the party in authority must resign.

Eight points to know about motions of no confidence

• Since Independence, 27 motions of no confidence have been introduced in the Lok Sabha.
• Congress leader Acharya Kripalani filed the first motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in August 1963, immediately after India’s loss to China in the 1962 war. However, the motion was thwarted.
• As Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi confronted the most no-confidence motions — 15. She passed all fifteen floor exams. Former West Bengal chief minister Jyotirmoy Basu of the CPI(M) has filed four motions of no confidence.
• Three no-confidence motions were filed against Narasimha Rao, two against Morarji Desai, and one each against Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Narendra Modi.
• The last motion of no confidence was filed against Vajpayee in 2003 by then-Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
• The longest debate on a vote of no confidence was 24.34 hours against Lal Bahadur Shastri, who had to demonstrate majority support three times.
• The exceptions were 1979, when Prime Minister Morarji Desai was forced to resign, and 1999, when the Vajpayee government lost power after their coalition partner AIADMK withdrew support.

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• In 2018, the NDA government led by Narendra Modi survived a vote of no confidence in the Lok Sabha with 195 votes. While 135 members voted in favour of the motion, 330 opposed it.

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Before the bill was passed, the environment minister of India, Bhupender Yadav, stated, “The world is confronting a triple crisis: climate change, desertification, and the depletion of biological resources. The purpose of the biological diversity act is to ensure the sustainable use of biological components and the equitable and reasonable distribution of benefits to vulnerable communities. We wish to promote business efficiency. The government promoted the use of biological resources during the Ayush era. We desire research, collaboration, and innovation in this industry. We want to foster business and living convenience.”

In its August 2022 report, the joint parliamentary committee that reviewed the contentious draught legislation to modify the biodiversity conservation law had accepted several amendments proposed by the government, such as exempting users of codified traditional knowledge from sharing benefits with local communities and replacing punishments with penalties.

The draught legislation was referred to the 21-member joint parliamentary panel after Yadav’s 16 December 2021 introduction prompted widespread criticism of several of its provisions.

According to the government, the amendments seek to reduce pressure on wild medicinal plants by encouraging cultivation and expediting research, patent applications, and the transfer of research results.

Critics stated that the proposed law intends to facilitate trade and benefit the AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy) industry, which is contrary to the existing law’s objectives of conserving biodiversity.

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Traditional Indian medicine practitioners, the seed industry, and research organisations were concerned about the compliance burden of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, which was enacted to conserve biological diversity and ensure equitable sharing of benefits resulting from the use of biological resources with indigenous and local communities.

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