India’s Modi to face no-confidence vote over Manipur violence

Indian PM Narendra Modi had not commented in public about the Manipur violence until last week [File: Manish Swarup/AP]

India’s parliament has authorised a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government by an alliance of opposition parties, to force the Hindu nationalist leader to address in detail concerns about ethnic clashes in a northeastern state.

Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a clear majority of 301 members in the 542-seat lower house of parliament, so the no-confidence vote will not affect its stability.