PM Modi Assures Lok Sabha of Restoring Peace in Manipur

The no-confidence motion is defeated by the government, and Modi encourages the opposition to try again in 2028. He notes that many of the issues in Manipur that had erupted during Congress regimes had their roots there.

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As his government defeated the motion of no-confidence in the face of the opposition's walkout, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday assured the people of Manipur that India and the Parliament were behind them and that both the State and Central governments were making every effort to restore peace and development to the State.

The opposition claimed that it staged a walkout because Mr. Modi had not brought up the subject of Manipur 90 minutes into his two-hour speech.

After the Opposition left, the Prime Minister addressed the State, saying: "The violence in Manipur is saddening. The Central and State governments are working together to ensure those responsible are punished because crimes against women are unacceptable. We would like to reassure our mothers and daughters in Manipur that this nation and this House support them. He gave the Indian people his word that the State will soon return to peace and progress.

He continued, "Let us understand the pain and become the medicine to heal together." "Dard ko samajh kar, dard ki dawaa ban kar saath chalein," he said.

But while talking about giving the people of Manipur a healing touch, Mr. Modi noted that many of the issues that had risen up in the State were not recent, but rather a holdover from the State's prior Congress governments.

"The Opposition, who moved this motion, is quite picky about what suffering and empathy it expresses. Politics is the beginning and the end of everything, he observed.

The Prime Minister continued by saying that, in contrast to the Opposition, he considered the northeast to be his "Jigar ka tukda" (a piece of his heart), and that he and his Council of Ministers had traveled there more than 400 times. He also listed the infrastructure and other development projects carried out there by his government.

Although the northeast may seem far away to you, he predicted that a shifting global order will witness the emergence of the ASEAN region and bring it into sharper focus.

Manipur's current issues are being depicted as if they occurred recently, Mr. Modi stated. Manipur was "consumed in the conflagration of insurgency," he claimed, "when the administration was under the control of insurgents and the national anthem was banned from being sung in schools when insurgents bombed the ISKCON temple when the bells of temples stopped ringing by 4 o'clock and security forces had to guard these locked temples."

The Prime Minister said, "In all this time, who else but Congress was in charge of the government?" The current BJP-led government in the State, he continued, had already put an end to bombings and blockades while sincerely attempting to find a solution.

Mr. Modi continued his scathing criticism of the Congress by recalling how the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had sent the Indian Air Force to destroy Mizoram and its own people in 1966 and to strike the Akal Takht militarily in 1984.

He claimed that the opposition enjoyed criticizing him with crude language, with their go-to catchphrase being "Modi, we'll dig your grave."

In response to the treasury benches' chants of "Modi, Modi" during Prime Minister Modi's speech, the Opposition shouted shouts of "INDIA," the name of the new Opposition alliance.

In a play on the INDIA bloc, which refused to discuss Manipur separately for their own political objectives despite the promise by Home Minister Amit Shah to do so, Mr. Modi labeled the coalition as "ghamandia [arrogant]".

In reference to Congressman Rahul Gandhi, he claimed that those who invoked "Bharat Mata" during the no-confidence vote represented a group that "did the most to break India, even as it was gaining independence."

In an apparent gesture to the regional parties that make up the INDIA bloc, the prime minister claimed that DMK leaders from Tamil Nadu had lately discussed regaining Katchatheevu.

The late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru mentioned a 1962 radio address in which he expressed his "heart went out to the people of Assam" during the Sino-Indian battle. According to Mr. Modi, this statement still hurts those "who were left to their fate in war."

The prime minister singled out socialist parties like Janata Dal (U), current allies of the Congress when their ideological mentor Ram Manohar Lohia explicitly stated that it was Nehru who was "deliberately keeping back the northeast" and that it was a "careless and dangerous thing to keep 30,000 square miles of territory in a cold storage."

Mr. Modi called the coalition that initiated the no-confidence motion against his government "arrogant, dynastic, and corrupt," but he added that prior no-confidence motions had brought him luck because the NDA had returned with a larger majority following the most recent one in 2018.

The Prime Minister said, "I ask the Opposition to try again in 2028," to laughs from the Treasury benches.

He assured the populace time and time again that he would make sure India's economy would rank third in the world by the end of his third term.

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