DC Edit | Oppostion has right to protest, but let Parliament be productive
Deccan ChronicleIn an election year, it is hard to expect anything other than hard-nosed and pragmatic election-focused thoughts, words and actions from any political leader or party. With the national battlelines for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections set between INDIA and NDA, the two main alliances, with a handful of parties still outside both, business is bound to be all about posturing, optics, arm-twisting rivals and a lot of showmanship, as well as one-upmanship, in Parliament’s Monsoon Session. The biggest issue ahead of the commencement of business in Parliament was Manipur, and reading the mood of the people of the country, and the Opposition, the Prime Minister tried to address the deep anger over the unabated violence in the northeastern state, especially the incident in which two women were heinously paraded naked by a criminal mob. In his demand, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has demanded the sacking of Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh and the imposition of President’s Rule in the northeastern state, an ironic reversal of recent circumstances, seeing as it is the Opposition seeking the dismissal of a state government this time. Saying that “humanity died in Manipur”, Mr Kharge has demanded Mr Modi speak about the ethnic violence-hit state in Parliament, and tell the nation what actually happened.