Parliament Monsoon Session: Opposition Leaders To Wear Black Clothes Tomorrow To Protest Manipur Violence

The Monsoon session, which began on July 20, has so far been marred by continuous disruptions by the opposition over the ethnic violence in Manipur.

Opposition leaders will wear 'black' colour clothes to the Parliament on Thursday

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New Delhi: All the MPs of the newly formed opposition alliance, named INDIA, will wear 'black' colour clothes to the Parliament on Thursday as a mark of protest against the Manipur issue.

 

The Monsoon session, which began on July 20, has so far been marred by continuous disruptions by the opposition over the ethnic violence in Manipur, particularly over a viral video showing two women being paraded naked by a mob in the northeastern state.

 

The video rocked both houses of the Parliament, forcing early adjournments since day one with the Opposition demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement on the issue.

 

In a bid to corner PM Modi over the Manipur ethnic violence, the opposition parties today moved a no-confidence motion against the government in Lok Sabha. It was tabled by Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi and BRS MP Nama Nageswara.

 

The Lok Sabha Speaker admitted the no-confidence motion and said he will schedule the debate after discussing it with all parties and going by the rule book. 

 

While the BJP government faces no threat due to the motion as the NDA has a comfortable majority in Lok Sabha, the Opposition has said the objective was to push PM Modi to reply in Parliament on the Manipur issue. The government has been insisting that only Union Home Minister Amit Shah would reply to a debate on the Manipur situation.

The session started a day after a video of two women being paraded naked by a mob on May 4 went viral, triggering a nationwide outrage. With the opposition MPs shouting slogans such as “Manipur Manipur” and “Manipur is burning”, Parliament witnessed early adjournments since the beginning of the session.