If PM Modi Is Angry About Manipur, He Must Dismiss The CM: Mallikarjun Kharge

Amid nationwide outrage over the abhorrent treatment of two Manipur women, Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi could have dismissed Chief Minister N. Biren Singh instead of making "false equivalence" with Congress-governed states if he was angry over the matter.

In a tweet, Mallikarjun Kharge demanded that the prime minister make an elaborate statement in Parliament on the Manipur situation.

"Narendra Modiji, You did not make a statement inside Parliament, yesterday. If you were angry then instead of making false equivalence with Congress-governed states, you could have first dismissed your Chief Minister Manipur," Kharge said on Twitter.

"INDIA expects you to make an elaborate statement in Parliament today, not just on one incident, but on the 80-day violence that your government in the state and the Centre has presided upon, looking absolutely helpless and remorseless," the Congress chief also said.

Opposition parties have stepped up their attack on the government over the Manipur violence, especially after the video of two women being paraded naked and assaulted by a crowd in a Manipur village, went viral on social media.

PM Modi on Thursday said the incident of women being paraded naked in Manipur has shamed 140 crore Indians, asserting that law will act with its full might and no guilty will be spared.

Both houses of Parliament did not transact any business on Thursday as the opposition was unrelenting on its demand for a statement from the prime minister on the Manipur violence.