‘You sprinkled kerosene, first Manipur, now Haryana’: Top 5 Rahul Gandhi quotes
Rahul Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP as he addressed the Parliament on Tuesday during the discussion over the no-confidence motion in Manipur.
Manipur is a Northeastern state of India which shares its boundaries with Nagaland, Mizoram and Assam on three sides and Sagaing Region of Myanmar on the remaining. A part of the seven sisters, its name translates to jewelled land. The strategic location of Manipur has enabled it to be a junction of cultural and economic exchange between Indian subcontinent, central Asia and Southeast Asia.
Initially a princely state, Manipur became a part of Indian democracy in 1947 when its monarch signed an instrument of merger with India. Imphal is the largest city of the state as well its capital.
Lying at 790m above sea level, Manipur is surrounded by hills on all its sides, as such the geography of the state consist of both types of features. It has rugged hilly terrain on the outer part of the state while mostly plains present within its enclosure. Being water surplus due to the presence of four river basins, the major crops grown are rice, orange, rubber, tea, coffee, etc with rice being the staple for the region. One of the most notable geographical features of the state is the Loktak lake, which is the largest freshwater lake in our country.
Apart from being geographically rich and strategically important, Manipur is also well known for its people who have gone on to make a mark for themselves. Notable amongst them are Irom Sharmila Chanu, a civil rights activist also known as the iron lady of Northeast, MC Mary Kom, six time world women boxing champion and most recently Saikhom Chanu Mirabai, the first silver medalist from India in weightlifting at Tokyo Olympics.
Rahul Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP as he addressed the Parliament on Tuesday during the discussion over the no-confidence motion in Manipur.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the Modi government during the no-confidence debate in Lok Sabha, asserting that it "divided" violence-hit Manipur into two parts and alleged that its politics had "murdered India" in the state.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited the Northeast "60 times" amid the no-confidence debate in Parliament on the Manipur violence. He also said no one should question PM Modi's love and affection towards the people.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said the current ethnic clashes in Manipur were due to past Congress governments.
As parliament debates the Manipur violence, the survivors of the enthic clash currently residing at the relief camps urge the government to "do something" to bring normalcy to the state.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) member Derek O'Brien was suspended from Rajya Sabha for the rest of the Monsoon session as he disobeyed Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar while discussing the Manipur issue.
Removal of the Assam Rifles personnel from the checkpoint was ordered after several groups of women from the Meitei community staged protests demanding the same.
Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde criticised Uddhav Thackeray for deviating from Hindutva and Bal Thackeray's ideology. He recited the Hanuman Chalisa in Lok Sabha during the debate on the no-confidence motion over Manipur violence.
Congress leader Gogoi alleged that a BJP government which talks about "one India" has created "two Manipurs -- one living in hills and the other in the valley".
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will speak on Tuesday during the debate on the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Manipur issue. Rahul, who returned to Parliament on Monday after four months, had visited violence-hit Manipur in June.
The no-confidence motion moved in the Lok Sabha, the Opposition’s last resort to compel Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak on the ongoing Manipur crisis on the floor of the house, will come into play on Tuesday.
A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said that the committee will be headed by former Jammu and Kashmir High Court Chief Justice Gita Mittal and include Justices (retd) Shalini P Joshi and Asha Menon.
The Supreme Court continued hearing a batch of petitions on Manipur violence, including the ones filed by sexual assault victims. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the bench, headed by CJI Chandrachud, that the probe agency will take up 12 FIRs filed on crimes against women in Manipur.
Representatives of a tribal group from Manipur will fly to Delhi on Monday to attend a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the strife-torn northeastern state.
KPA President Tongmang Haokip said the party had lent support to the BJP on the condition that interests of the Kuki community would be protected, but that did not happen.
Responding to reports of PM Modi asking NDA MPs to reach out to Muslim women on Raksha Bandhan, Uddhav Thackeray said that they should instead get rakhis tied from women in Manipur and also from Bilkis Bano.
KPA president Tongmang Haokip wrote a letter to Manipur Governor Anusuiya Uikey, apprising him of the party's decision to snap ties with the BJP.
Most Kuki leaders are unlikely to attend the Manipur assembly session slated to be called from August 21 in view of the continued ethnic violence.
TMC leader Firhad Hakim claimed that the people of Manipur and Haryana were taking refuge in the bordering districts of West Bengal.
How by allowing Manipur's wounds to fester, the state and central governments have pushed its people to a point of no return