Manipuri MP questions the government

Manipur MP Angomcha Bimol Akoijam explained why people elected “a nobody” like him to the Parliament.

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00:00I would keep quiet the moment the Prime Minister opened his mouth and a nationalist party says that Manipur is part of India

00:06You are dishonoring the likes of the youths who hold the tricolour in international platforms

00:12the likes of Mary Combs

00:30Mr. Chairman, I am drawing your attention to the absence of Manipur in the President's address

00:48This is not a simple absence

00:52It is a reminder of a Rashtra Chetna which excludes people

00:57You must realize that more than

01:0060,000 people are linguishing in Relief Camp in a wretched conditions for the last one year

01:0760,000 people homeless is not a joke

01:11200 plus people died and

01:14There has been a civil war like situations where people are armed to the teeth and roaming around and fighting each other

01:22Defending their villages and the Indian state is a mute spectator to this tragedy for one year

01:29I must remind this house

01:32That each and every square centimetre of Manipur is covered by a central armed forces

01:37It is one of the most militarized areas in this country where you have more

01:43Armed policemen than the civil police besides the armed forces of the Union

01:49despite this

01:50how is that

01:5260,000 people were rendered homeless and

01:56Villages in thousands were destroyed and yet

02:01our Prime Minister remained

02:03Mute not even a word and the presidential address did not even mention that I must ask this

02:11questions to the house

02:13Is this silence?

02:16Communicating to the people of the Northeast and Manipur in particular that you don't matter in the Indian state scheme of things

02:25Major Lysham Jotin who was awarded Ashok Chakra while grappling with suicide bomber was a Manipuri

02:31You are dishonoring the likes of the youths who hold the tricolour in international platforms

02:37The likes of Maricom, Sarita, Kunjarani and Mirabai Chanu

02:41You are saying that you don't matter in this country your state doesn't matter in this country if you wanted to doubt the

02:49nationality and the nationalism of the people of that state

02:53You must realize that these people have fought for the country. These people have

02:59brought

03:01Maricom

03:03Parliament

03:11Mr. Chairman

03:12The hurt the anger has thrown a nobody like me to be part of this temple of democracy

03:20beating the BJP

03:23Cabinet minister think about the pain if you hear an anxiety anguish and a pain in my voice

03:30Please go back and see those things

03:3360,000 people

03:34Linguishing in the Relief Camp don't talk about partition

03:38Till you win that I would keep quiet the moment the Prime Minister open his mouth and a nationalist party says that

03:45Manipur is part of India and we care for the people of that state