As NDA Government faces no-confidence motion today, efforts to ensure the attendance of all its members by the parties are on, even those unwell or in hospital. On Thursday, ahead of Friday’s no confidence motion, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government went all out. Not to defeat the motion — that’s a given -- but to defeat it with a two-thirds vote against it in a sort of “There, take that” gesture to the opposition, especially the Congress.

As NDA Government faces no-confidence motion today, efforts to ensure the attendance of all its members by the parties are on, even those unwell or in hospital. On Thursday, ahead of Friday’s no confidence motion, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government went all out. Not to defeat the motion — that’s a given -- but to defeat it with a two-thirds vote against it in a sort of “There, take that” gesture to the opposition, especially the Congress.