The debate on the Opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi government started in the Lok Sabha on August 8, with the Congress’s Deputy Leader of the House, Gaurav Gogoi, questioning the “maun vrat” (vow of silence) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Manipur and asking why he had not visited the strife-torn State so far.
Mr. Gogoi said the government that “talks of one India has today created two Manipurs and deeply divided communities are now talking the language of revenge against each other”.
The Congress member posed a series of questions on Manipur. He asked why the Prime Minister had not visited the State, why it took 80 days to break his silence on the State, and why Chief Minister N. Biren Singh had not been sacked.
