New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the No-Confidence Motion debate in the Lok Sabha on Thursday said that both the state and central governments are doing everything possible to restore peace in Manipur.
“Both the state and central governments are doing everything possible to ensure that the accused get the strictest punishment. I want to assure the people that peace will be restored in Manipur in the coming time. I want to tell the people of Manipur including women and daughters of Manipur that the country is with you,” PM Modi said.
Further, in an aggressive stance against the opposition, Prime Minister Modi launched a verbal attack, alleging the Congress party of being responsible for the condition of Manipur.
“The politics of Congress is responsible for the condition of Manipur. Congress party is the mother of all problems in Northeast,” PM Modi said.
“Whose government was there in Manipur when everything used to happen according to the wishes of insurgent organisations? Whose government was there in Manipur when Mahatma Gandhi’s picture was not allowed in government offices, whose government was there in Manipur when the decision to not allow the national anthem in schools was taken?… Their (opposition) pain is selective. They cannot think beyond politics,” he added.
Earlier, Members of Opposition parties staged a walkout while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was replying to the debate on the no-confidence motion.
The debate on the No-Confidence Motion started on Tuesday. The Opposition has moved a no-confidence motion against the NDA government over the Manipur violence issue.
The first such motion against the Narendra Modi-led government was brought in 2018 over granting a special category status to Andhra Pradesh, which was later defeated.