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The 12  members, who were supposed to vote in favour of the bill pressed red button instead of green when Speaker Sumitra Mahajan put the Clause 2 of the Constitution Amendment Bill to division of votes.

 Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy who was involved in floor management. rushed to speak to the members who had voted gainst their own government's move and was seen instructing something to them.

 

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the electronic system had not functioned properly and urged the Speaker to either have a re-division of votes or get the exact votes through slips.

Though the opposition members opposed this, the speaker put the clause to the vote again.

 

The re-division saw the number of votes against the government going down to five from 24 and the number of those supporting it went to 354 against 264 earlier.