NEW DELHI: The politics of the BJP has “murdered Bharat Mata” in Manipur, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said and called members of the ruling party “traitors”, as he launched a broadside against the Narendra Modi government over its handling of the violence in the Northeastern State of India.
Speaking on the second day of the debate on the no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha the other day, Gandhi, in his first comments in the House after the restoration of his membership, also slammed Prime Minister Modi for not visiting Manipur and said that the PM does not consider the State a part of India, evoking strong protest by the treasury benches.
The former Congress chief also said that the Prime Minister listens to only two people, Amit Shah and Gautam Adani, just as Ravan paid heed to only two people’s advice–Meghnad and Kumbhakaran.
Gandhi showed an old poster of Modi and Adani sitting together in an aircraft, and claimed that “Modi doesn’t listen to India’s voice but theirs (Adani group)”. The Indian Prime Minister was not in the House when Gandhi spoke.
“I went to Manipur a few days ago. Our Prime Minister has not gone there, he has not gone there till now. He does not consider Manipur part of India. I used the word Manipur, but the reality is that there is no Manipur left. You have divided Manipur into two parts, you have broken up Manipur,” Gandhi said.
Narrating his experience of visiting relief camps in the violence-hit State, he said, “I asked a woman about what happened to her and she replied that her small son, an only child, was shot before her eyes. She told me that she spent the whole night with the body of her child and then she felt afraid and left her house. When I asked her if she had brought along something with her, she responded ‘only the clothes she was wearing and a photo’.”
“In another camp, when I asked another woman the same question about what happened to her, she started trembling and fainted,” Gandhi added.
“These are the two examples. In Manipur, they (BJP) have murdered Hindustan. Their politics has not killed Manipur but killed Hindustan in Manipur. Hindustan has been murdered in Manipur,” he said.
“As I had said, India is a voice of the people. You killed that voice in Manipur. This means that you murdered Bharat Mata in Manipur,” Gandhi asserted amid thumping of desks by opposition leaders.
