{"id":243724,"date":"2024-07-05T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=243724"},"modified":"2024-07-05T00:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:53:11","slug":"opposition-claims-victory-over-pms-address-on-manipur-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/opposition-claims-victory-over-pms-address-on-manipur-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition claims victory over PM&#8217;s address on Manipur violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, 4 Jul:<\/strong> The Congress on Thursday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi &#8220;breaking his silence on the Manipur violence&#8221; in the Rajya Sabha is a real victory for the opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A day after Modi spoke on the Manipur violence in the Rajya Sabha, the opposition party said that the entire country had been waiting for Modi&#8217;s reaction on the matter for the last one and a half years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8230;he didn&#8217;t speak anything about Manipur for the last one and a half years. Finally, yesterday (Wednesday) he broke his silence on Manipur. It is a real victory for the opposition,&#8221; AICC general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal told reporters here, reacting to a query.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his speech in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday on the motion of thanks on the president&#8217;s address to a joint sitting of Parliament, the prime minister had said that violence in Manipur is continuously declining and educational institutions along with businesses have opened in most parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had asserted that all efforts are being made to ensure a return of complete peace in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recalling his elaborate speech concerning Manipur in the previous session of the Rajya Sabha, Modi had reiterated that the &#8220;government is continuously making efforts to bring normalcy in Manipur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Venugopal said that the opposition created a ruckus in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday because of the government&#8217;s unwillingness to give an MP from Manipur five minutes to speak before the PM&#8217;s reply on the motion of thanks on the president&#8217;s address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Alappuzha MP said that the opposition requested the government to hear the voice of Manipur before the PM&#8217;s speech. &#8220;They were not ready, and that&#8217;s why the ruckus started,&#8221; he said, justifying the sloganeering by opposition members during the PM&#8217;s speech in the Lok Sabha. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, 4 Jul: The Congress on Thursday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi &#8220;breaking his silence on the Manipur violence&#8221; in the Rajya Sabha is a real victory for the opposition parties. A day after Modi spoke on the Manipur violence in the Rajya Sabha, the opposition party said that the entire country had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}