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STATING THAT the violence in Manipur has “assumed a global dimension”, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday said that only the power of the no-confidence motion brought Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Parliament.
Chowdhury, who spoke earlier in the day, before the Prime Minister’s address on Thursday evening, said, “The Manipur issue cannot be confined to any state because it has already assumed a global dimension. That is why the Prime Minister’s intervention is indispensable — that was our argument (Opposition’s demand for the PM to make a statement on the Manipur issue in the House).”
Responding to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s “Quit India” call for corruption, Chowdhury said, “Quit India must happen — from communalisation, from polarisation, from saffronisation.”
Targeting the Opposition INDIA bloc and invoking the Quit India Movement on its 81st anniversary, Shah had said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, “Corruption, Quit India. Appeasement, Quit India. Dynasty, Quit India.” After Shah and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi took objection to some of Chowdhury’s remarks aimed at the PM, Speaker Om Birla said the remarks concerned have been removed from record.
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