PM Modi at least could go to Manipur, says Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not interested in dousing the "fire in Manipur".

"Yesterday, the PM spoke in Parliament for about 2 hours 13 minutes. In the end, he spoke on Manipur for 2 minutes. Manipur has been burning for months, people are being killed, rapes are happening, but the PM was laughing, cracking jokes in Parliament," Gandhi said at a press conference here.

While Modi repeatedly attacked Gandhis, Congress, the Opposition bloc INDIA, previous Congress regimes' handling of the northeast in his Thursday's speech, Gandhi argued that it was not prime ministerial. When a person becomes a PM, the person ceases to be a politician, he argued. "He becomes the representative of the voice of the country. Politics should be put aside and the PM should speak not as a petty politician but with the weight of the Indian people behind him. It is tragic, it is sad. The PM does not understand what he actually is," he said. Gandhi steered clear of all statements and charges Modi made during his speech.


"The prime minister at least could go to Manipur, talk to communities and say I am your prime minister, let's start talking but I don't see intention."