“This motion is not meant to succeed in this House…” said Mahua Moitra as she accused the Modi government of inaction in Manipur.
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00:00Nafraton ki jang ne, ab dekho kya kya ho gaya, sabziya hindu hui, bakra musulman ho gaya.
00:06Everyone asks, if not Modi ji, then who?
00:09India will say, anyone but Modi.
00:17Make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, this motion is not meant to succeed in this house.
00:22But the larger motion, the have-confidence-in-India motion must succeed.
00:30When the people of India have their say soon, and it's for this reason I stand before you today.
00:37The Manipur issue is mired in silence, and in the government's whataboutery and false equivalences.
00:43I will point these out as best as I can.
00:45The treasury bunches have made vitriolic comments on why only Manipur?
00:50What about the instances of rape and murder in Rajasthan, in Chhattisgarh, in West Bengal?
00:56We in turn have felt compelled to ask, what about the violence in Haryana?
01:00I want to tell this house that Manipur is different, and I will tell you why.
01:04The issue in Manipur is of a hate crime against a particular community,
01:08where it is understood that police personnel of one community, possibly the same community as the CM,
01:14handed over women of another community to be raped and pillaged by a mob,
01:18and made every attempt to prevent those women from seeking justice.
01:22The issue is that two communities today in Manipur have been pitted against each other,
01:26in an atmosphere of civil war, of ethnic violence that has rarely been seen in India in the past few decades.
01:326,500 FIRs in three months, which state has seen this?
01:384,000 houses destroyed in three months, which state has seen this?
01:4560,000 people displaced, 2% of the state's population,
01:50which state outside of wartime or natural calamity has seen this?
01:54150 people dead in three months, which state has seen this?
01:58300 places of worship destroyed, which state has seen this?
02:02An armed standoff between the Manipur State Police and the Assam Rifles captured on video,
02:08one controlled by the Minister of Home Affairs, other controlled by the State Police,
02:12which state has seen this?
02:142,000 firearms and 6 lakh bullets looted from police stations by mobs, which state has seen this?
02:22Two ethnic groups armed to the teeth, a buffer zone between where hill cannot go to valley,
02:29and valley cannot go to hill, which state has seen this?
02:33The chief supporter supports one group, accuses the other of being drug runners.
02:38In truth, over 15,000 acres of poppy have increased in cultivation in the past five years,
02:45250 square kilometers of forest land has reduced under this chief minister's watch,
02:51which state has seen this? Only Manipur, no other state, only Manipur.
02:56We haven't heard of one change in the police force, we have not heard of one change in the government,
03:01we have not heard of one person taking responsibility.
03:04As a government in the center, which is also ruling the state of Manipur,
03:08this is your biggest failure of the double-engined government.
03:12Manipur is a tacitly approved hate crime.
03:16Make no mistake, this is civil war, these are crimes against humanity.
03:20The harsh reality is while this government may have built infrastructure, it has destroyed institutions.
03:28And I will be doing an injustice to my role in parliament if I don't call this out.
03:33The sinner who doesn't like virtue, he has killed us here.
03:52The war of hatred, look what has happened.
03:55The vegetables have become Hindu, the goat has become Muslim.
04:03We are not going to be bullied.
04:05One crony capitalist is not going to make a monkey out of India's regulators and equity markets while we watch.
04:12Mamata Di is not scared.
04:14Mr. Stalin is not scared.
04:16Akhilesh Ji is not scared.
04:18Rahul Gandhi is not scared.
04:20A 37% vote share party can only prevail if the rest of us 63% are shared and we are not.
04:29This time we will take you on and we will win.
04:32I hear the BJP members praising their own.
04:35And I quote from the Gita, you have the right to labor only and not to the fruits of labor.
04:40Everyone asks, if not Modi Ji, then who?
04:43This inaction on Manipur, Honorable Prime Minister, where you had absolute power to intervene but did not,
04:50is a cornerstone after which India will say anyone but Modi.
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