A Member of Parliament of Mizo National Front (MNF), an NDA ally has claimed that his mic was switched off during a speech in the Rajya Sabha on Friday. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Mizoram MP K Vanlalvena claimed that his mic was switched off while he was speaking on the Manipur issue. Earlier on Thursday, he had said that his party would vote against the Centre on the no-confidence motion and opposed calling the 'tribal people of Manipur as Myanmarese'. Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar ordered to expunge the speech of Vanlalvena saying that would not go on record.
The incident happened while the Opposition demanded a discussion on Manipur under Rule 167. Amid uproar in the Rajya Sabha, MNF MP stood up to speak on the situation in Manipur and referred to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's speech during the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Notably, Amit Shah had referred to the uncontrolled infiltration from Myanmar into Mizoram after the coup by the military junta.
"I raised Manipur issue at Parliament session today's afternoon ie The 10th Aug 2023 .Hon'ble Chairman switched it off my microphone while I just began to speak. I continued my speech without microphone in the midst roarings of Opp MP's," the MNF MP said in a tweet.
Meanwhile, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar did not allow him, and the entire opposition supported the MNF MP in one voice. Some of the members also trooped into the Well raising slogans. Amid uproar, Dhankhar adjourned the House for the day and ordered that Vanlalvena's speech would not go on record.
MNF MP Vanlalvena later spoke to the Indian Express and said: "I am from the state of Mizoram. I am a tribal MP. The Honorable Home Minister said that the tribal people in Manipur are Myanmarese. We are not Myanmarese. We are Indian. We have been living here before the British administration."
"We have been living here for 200 years, before the British expedition to India. We had been living many years in the Northeast before Indian Independence. We are not foreigners. We are the real owners of the Northeast since many years," Vanlalvena added, as per IE.
Vanlalvena further said: "It has never even happened in Communist countries. Are we still a secular state after the burning of over 300 churches? The hill areas of the Northeast belong to the tribal people and we must defend them."
"The Kuki-zo tribes in Manipur belong to the Mizo community – they are our people. The troubles in Manipur state have not been created by the Myanmarese refugees but by the Centre and state governments. This was violence that was pre-planned by the Manipur government," he told the Indian Express.
On his party being part of NDA, he said, "As far as the no-confidence motion is concerned, the MNF supports this no-confidence motion. But let me be clear, we support the no-confidence motion only on the issue of Manipur. Outside of that, we continue to be part of the NDA, and continue to support the Centre."
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