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As crisis stalked the Government following the sudden resignation of seven Ministers belonging to allies on the floor of the House, the Opposition insisted on a vote on a cut motion to the demands for grants which the Speaker conceded. The ruling party members immediately trooped to the well of the House and the Minister for Geology and Mines, Ravindra Rai, sought to move a no-confidence motion against the Speaker. Mr. Namdhari ignored it and put the cut motion to vote after which he announced that it had been passed by a voice vote. The Speaker, who belongs to the Janata Dal (United), later said the Government had lost mandate with a majority of the members supporting the Opposition cut motion. He said he had to adjourn the House sine die because the BJP members were hurling chairs at others and disrupting the proceedings. Mr. Marandi, however, maintained that his Government was still in a majority and that he would prove it on the floor of the House at an appropriate time. He contested the Speaker's claim that there was a voice vote on the cut motion as the House had been adjourned indefinitely. "My Ministry is very much alive. A Government cannot be defeated by a voice vote which was not even taken," he claimed. PTI
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