Impact of not having majority in Rajya Sabha By Deepak Parvatiyar March 10, 2015 On 4 March, the Narendra Modi government faced its first embarrassment in the Rajya Sabha when the Opposition forced an amendment in the motion of thanks to the President’s address to the joint session of Parliament, criticising the government for its failure to curb ‘high-level of corruption’ and bring back black money stashed in foreign banks abroad. This was only the third instance of the Opposition forcing such amendments to the President’s address. The earlier instances were as follows: 1. In 1980 on grounds that the President’s address had not taken notice of the attempts to engineer large scale defections in the Legislative Assemblies in the States that were ruled by non-Congress (Indira) governments, and attempts to even arbitrarily dissolve such Assemblies You may also like to read Rajya Sabha Members State wise list of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Members 2. In
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