From CK Nayak
NEW DELHI: History was repeated in Parliament on Friday when Chief Minister Conrad Sangma voted against the no-confidence motion brought by the combined opposition parties in the Lok Sabha.
The motion was defeated by voice vote.
Sangma, who was in the Capital for the Delhi Dialogue and other programmes, reached Parliament in the evening during the discussion and before the voice vote.
He can vote till he resigns from his MP seat.
Apart from being part of the NDA, Conrad is heading the MDA coalition along with BJP and other parties in the state.
In 1999, Congress brought then Odisha chief minister Giridhar Gomango to vote against the 13-month-old Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government that lost just by that vote. BJP had then criticised such move but the then Speaker had left it to the chief minister who was still an MP.
Another MP from Shillong, Vincent Pala, on Friday voted in favour of the no-confidence motion.
