Rahul Gandhi said Prime Minister had not visited Manipur because he does not consider Manipur a part of India. “He has murdered Manipur. He has murdered our Bharat Maata in Manipur. He has murdered Hindustan in Manipur”, the Congress leader said in his much waited speech in the Loksabha on the no confidence motion.
Rahul began his speech around 12.10 pm thanking Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for reinstating him as the member of the Lok Sabha, and also apologised for his last speech in which he mentioned Adani. “In my last speech in the House, I spoke about Adani. I might have hurt many people. So I apologise…today I want to tell my friends in the BJP that there is no reason to be scared today as my main speech will not be around Adani. Yes, I will obviously throw some brickbats,” Rahul Gandhi said.
PM does not listen to the voice of INDIA: Rahul
Rahul Gandhi said PM did not listen to the voice of India. If PM Modi does not listen to the voice of India, whose voice does he listen to, Gandhi asked adding that “Ravan listened only to Meghnad and Kumbhkarna. Prime Minister listens only to Amit Shah and Adani” amidst pandemonium in the House.
This was Rahul Gandhi’s first speech after he got back his Lok Sabha membership following the Supreme Court’s stay of his conviction in the 2019 Modi surname case.
Quoting Rumi, Rahul Gandhi said he would speak from his heart today and not from the head — amid uproar from the NDA MPs as Rahul Gandhi started speaking on his Bharat Jodo Yatra. “Wait for a few more minutes if you have waited for a day,” Rahul Gandhi said asking for patience as he was completing the prelude to his main speech on the no-confidence motion.
“Rumi ne kaha tha jo shabd dil se aate hain vo shabd dil me jaate hain to aaj main dimag se nahi bolna chah raha hoon, main dil se bolna chaah raha hoon,” Rahul Gandhi said.
‘For PM Modi, Manipur is not in INDIA’
Coming to the no-confidence motion which has been brought by the Congress and the Opposition parties under INDIA, Rahul Gandhi said PM Modi did not visit Manipur, because for him, Manipur is not in India. “I am saying Manipur but the truth is there is nothing of Manipur left in Manipur. You have divided Manipur into two parts,” Gandhi said.
Rahul Gandhi’s speech interrupted; Kiren Rijiju’s ‘one question’
BJP MP Kiren Rijiju stood up and interrupted Rahul Gandhi’s speech and said he had one question to ask Rahul Gandhi about what the Congress did in the northeast. Ruckus broke out in the Lok Sabha with Speaker Om Birla asking the members to maintain decorum.
‘One mother is sitting here, another mom killed in Manipur’
“You have killed Mother India in Manipur. My one mom is sitting here and the other mother has been killed in Manipur. Indian army can bring peace in Manipur in one day but you are not using them. You want our soldiers to die. If PM Modi is not listening to the heart of India, whose voice does he listen to?”
How Can Rahul Gandhi talk about the death of Mother INDIA: Minister Smriti Irani
Union minister Smriti Irani countered Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statement on the on confidence motion against the NDA government and said for the first time a member of Parliament spoke of the ‘death of Mother India’ and their alliance members clapped. As Rahul Gandhi said his ‘mother’ has been killed in Manipur and that the NDA government has bifurcated Manipur, Smriti Irani said, “You are not India because India is not corrupt. India believes in merit not in dynasty and today of all the days people like you need to remember what was told to the British – Quit India. Corruption Quit India, Dynasty Quit India. Merit now finds place in India…”
Smriti Irani fires back to Rahul Gandhi: ‘Spoke of killing Bharat maata’
Referring to 1984 riots, Emergency, and the killing of Girija Tickoo, Smriti Irani said, “This is the history of the Congress, soaked in blood.”
“A Kashmiri Pandit named Girija Tickoo was gangraped and brutally murdered in Kashmir. When this was shown in a movie, some Congress leaders called it propaganda. The same party leaders are talking about Manipur today,” Irani said.
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