‘You murdered India in Manipur’: Rahul Gandhi tells Centre in Lok Sabha

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said in the Lok Sabha that the Narendra Modi government has “murdered India in Manipur”.

The Congress leader made the statement in his first speech in the Lower House after being reinstated as the MP from Wayanad on August 7. He was reinstated three days after the Supreme Court stayed his conviction in a criminal defamation case.

“India is the voice of its people,” Gandhi said in Parliament on Wednesday during the debate on the no-confidence motion against the Union government. “You murdered that voice in Manipur. This means that you murdered Bharat Mata in Manipur.”

The Congress leader alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not visit the violence-hit state as he does not consider it to be part of India.

Gandhi said he recently went to Manipur to visit relief camps. “The prime minister did not go, because, for him, Manipur is not a part of India,” he alleged.

“I used the word ‘Manipur’, but the truth of today is that Manipur does not exist anymore,” he added. “You have divided Manipur into two parts.”

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