Given below are two statements:
Statement (I): The Prime Minister was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence in 1996.
Statement (II): Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda was the first Prime Minister to lose the confidence of the House.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Both Statement I and Statement II are false
Statement (I): The Prime Minister was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence in 1996. Incorrect. In 1996, A. B. Vajpayee's 13-day government resigned before the vote on its confidence motion was taken. The defeat by one vote came on 17 April 1999, when the Vajpayee government lost a confidence motion by 269 votes to 270.
Statement (II): Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda was the first Prime Minister to lose the confidence of the House. Incorrect. The first Prime Minister to lose a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha was V. P. Singh, on 7 November 1990. Deve Gowda lost a confidence vote later, on 11 April 1997.