New Delhi: The Congress hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he’s gripped with a “Congress-phobia” and that’s the reason he criticised the get together all through his speech and spoke muc much less about Manipur throughout his reply to a debate on the no-confidence movement in Lok Sabha on Thursday. Congress deputy chief in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi additionally alleged that the BJP’s nationalism is “faux” and “they don’t seem to be patriots”. Opposition MPs staged a walkout from Lok Sabha when Modi was replying, alleging that there was no reference to Manipur within the first 90 minutes of his speech.
Gogoi mentioned the BJP was “hiding its failures” in Manipur and expressed the hope that the INDIA alliance events would defeat the BJP within the 2024 elections. He mentioned the prime minister spoke for 2 hours throughout which he criticised the Congress for more often than not as a substitute of talking on Manipur and sharing the ache of the folks there.
“… In these two hours, all he did was twist the title of our nation – India. There’s a Congress phobia inside that we will see as a result of the prime minister spent most of his time blaming the Congress get together. “Little question, seeing the unity of INDIA events in entrance of him shouting INDIA, INDIA, has spooked the prime minister. Due to this fact, as a substitute of talking about Manipur, he spent most of his time criticising the Congress get together,” Gogoi instructed reporters after they staged the walkout.
“Regardless of his speech, we’re assured that our events stand united for a standard imaginative and prescient to save lots of and shield the values of our Structure, to protect the values of our civilisation and to protect the integrity, fraternity, liberty and equality, rights and ideas which can be enshrined in our Structure. We’re assured that the INDIA alliance will win in 2024,” he mentioned.
Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh shared the remarks of Gogoi, who moved the no-confidence movement, and mentioned he defined “why INDIA events walked out of Lok Sabha after listening for greater than 70 minutes to the prime minister’s election sloganeering, abuse of INDIA and obstinate refusal to handle the explanations behind the no-confidence movement, particularly Manipur”.
Gogoi mentioned for 2 hours, PM Modi solely “defamed” the title of our nation. “Having not answered the three questions that we raised, for denying the representatives of Manipur their proper to talk in Parliament, for giving the chief minister of Manipur who has failed the folks of Manipur a clear chit, for being silent on wrestlers, for being silent on Chinese language intrusion in India, for being silent on inflation and for being silent on remarks of former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik and for being silent on problems with nationwide safety, the INDIA alliance companions determined to stroll out,” he mentioned.
He mentioned the BJP needed to suppress the reality about Manipur and that’s the reason the 2 BJP MPs from the state weren’t allowed to talk. It’s clear that they needed to cover the reality of Manipur, Gogoi alleged. He mentioned Ravana thought he was very clever, however his conceitedness introduced his downfall. “Now we have seen that BJP’s conceitedness and the conceitedness of the prime minister and that of Dwelling Minister Amit Shah’s, there’s a hearth in Manipur.”
“That’s what the BJP is doing to do, to cowl up for his or her failures in Manipur. And that’s the reason their nationalism is faux nationalism. They don’t seem to be patriots, they’re bent on dividing our nation,” he mentioned.
Congress Basic Secretary Okay C Venugopal termed the prime minister’s speech “uninteresting, boring and unoriginal”. “Regardless that INDIA compelled PM Modi to surrender his boycott of Parliament and break his silence on Manipur, this was a speech that leaves the Indian folks confused and sorely disenchanted. In a 2 hour 13 minute speech, he had three minutes of empty platitudes on Manipur, and he hid behind his already-flopped Dwelling Minister or the identical previous drivel in regards to the previous,” he posted on X, previously Twitter.
“Mr Modi, you can not twist historical past and shirk duty on your prison failure in dealing with Manipur. Your phrases of ‘financial improvement’ in Manipur are hole, with no resolution for peace in anyway,” he mentioned.
He mentioned PM Mod’s lengthy monologue of “WhatsApp forwards” was a weak try and whitewash this authorities’s “failures” of unemployment, worth rise, farmers’ misery, “horrible situation” of girls’s security, and an environment of hatred. “The folks of India will present their no-confidence in you in 2024,” he mentioned. Opposition MPs had been seen chanting ‘Manipur, Manipur’ in the course of the prime minister’s reply as they urged him to talk on the ethnic violence within the northeastern state.
Members of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) additionally walked out of the Home subsequently. Gogoi mentioned there have been two goals for the movement of no-confidence – to save lots of parliamentary democracy and make the prime minister cease solely making speeches in international parliaments and are available to the Parliament of India and ship his speech right here. The second goal was justice for the folks of Manipur, he famous.
“What we noticed that after days of wrestle, the INDIA alliance succeeded in forcing the prime minister to return to the Lok Sabha and make his assertion. Sadly, the prime minister doesn’t really feel compelled to go to Rajya Sabha. “However, the second goal remained unfulfilled – justice for the folks of Manipur. I noticed injustice for the folks of Manipur as the 2 MPs of Manipur weren’t allowed to talk on Manipur. It’s these two MPs from Manipur who signify the folks of Manipur and their arms and mouth have been taped shut,” the Congress chief alleged.
“That’s what the BJP is doing to do, to cowl up for his or her failures in Manipur,” he alleged. Gogoi mentioned his three questions nonetheless remained unanswered – “Why hasn’t the prime minister made any plans to go to Manipur? Why hasn’t the prime minister made any concrete assertion on Manipur? Why hasn’t he requested his chief minister to resign? It is just conceitedness which makes them blind to the ache of Manipur folks.”
