* The ruling BJP expressed confidence that it would be able to defeat the motion as it has a majority in the Lok Sabha, and hoped that it would also manage support from some opposition parties.

"The numbers are very clear. The BJP by itself has a majority in the lower house. We have nearly 314 members within the NDA and there are many other parties which are likely to oppose this no-confidence motion - because this is completely pointless," BJP national spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao told reporters outside Parliament.

* Shiv Sena decided to vote against the motion. The party has issued a whip for its MPs, directing them to support the government. Earlier, BJP president Amit Shah had spoken to Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray over the phone for motion.

* Union Minister Ananth Kumar said just like in 1996, the Congress party will be proven wrong yet again in the trust vote in Parliament. "Sonia ji's maths is weak. They had calculated similarly in 1996. We know what happened then. Their calculation is wrong yet again. The Narendra Modi government has a majority, both, inside and outside Parliament. NDA will vote against the no-confidence motion. NDA+ will also support us," Kumar said while citing the example of the no-confidence motion against Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1996.

* BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha said that he will follow party's order and vote against the motion. "I think there are intellectuals in opposition but they should've done it later. Because we have the numbers and our moral is also up. I haven't left BJP and party hasn't left me. As long as I am in BJP, I'll support it and follow every whip," he said.

* Aam Aadmi Party issued a whip to all its four Lok Sabha members to vote in favour of the motion.

The chief whip, Bhagwant Mann, issued the directive that will be binding on the four MPs of the party in the Lok Sabha, said a senior AAP leader. Among them is the party's suspended MP from Patiala Dharamvir Gandhi.

* The ruling BJD in Odisha will reveal its stand on motion tomorrow, a senior party leader said.

* TDP MP JC Diwakar Reddy has decided not to attend the session as he is "fed up" of his party and the Centre. "I am not going to attend the Parliament session. You can say that I violated the party whip instructions. I am fed up with Centre and our TDP government. And I am fed up with the whole political system. Right now, I am in my native place in Anantapur and will come in front of the media with my logic within a week," Reddy told ANI.

* The AIADMK, with 37 members in the Lok Sabha, indicated that it might not support the opposition's no-confidence motion against the BJP-led NDA government.

"We haven't brought this. It is Andhra's issue and they brought this. We in Tamil Nadu struggled for 22 days in Parliament for Cauvery Management Board issue. We stalled proceedings. Who came to us? Which state came forward and helped in our cause?" AIADMK Joint Coordinator and Tamil Nadu chief minister K. Palaniswami.

* DMK leader MK Stalin in a statement said the party would extend "moral support" to the no-confidence motion. (The DMK does not have any member in the Lok Sabha.)

