"Inhone Manipur meih, Hindustan ki hatya ki hai" Rahul Gandhi slams BJP in LS

New Delhi: "Aap desh dhrohi ho, aap desh bhakt nahi ho, Isliye aap ke PM Manipur nahi jana chahte," said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his speech on the no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

Rahul Gandhi who was speaking on the motion was stopped by the treasury benches from time to time.

No confidence motion was moved against the by the opposition bloc INDIA on August 9. The motion was moved by Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi who started the debate.

Rahul Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not visiting Manipur.

Manipur experiences of Rahul Gandhi

"I went to Manipur a few days ago. Our prime minister has not gone there, he has not gone there till now. He does not consider the Manipur part of India. I used the word Manipur, but the reality is there is no Manipur left. You have divided Manipur into two parts; you have broken up Manipur," Gandhi said.

Gandhi said he visited Manipur and met women and children at the relief camps, but the prime minister had not done.

"I asked a woman, 'What happened with you?' She said, 'My small son, an only child, was shot before my eyes. I spent the whole night with the body of my child, and then I felt afraid. I left my house. I asked her if she had brought along something with her, and she said only the clothes she was wearing and a photo," Gandhi said, narrating his experiences.

In another camp, he said he asked a woman the same question -- "What happened to you?" As he did so, she started trembling and fainted.

Murdered Bharat Mata

"These are the two examples. In Manipur, they (BJP) have murdered Hindustan. Their politics has not killed Manipur but killed Hindustan in Manipur. Hindustan has been murdered in Manipur...By killing the people of Manipur, you have murdered Bharat Mata. You are not desh bhakts (patriots) but deshdrohis (traitors)," the former Congress chief said.

Union minister Kiren Rijiju said the Congress leader should apologise for his remarks as it is the Congress which is responsible for insurgency and other problems in the northeast.

Continuing his no-holds-barred attack against the government in his over 30-minute speech, Gandhi went on to say that it is the Army that can bring peace to Manipur, but the government is not deploying it.

"You have murdered the voice of India, which means you have murdered Bharat Mata in Manipur... My mother is sitting here. The other mother, Bharat Mata, you killed in Manipur," he said, pointing to Sonia Gandhi, who was present in the house.

Communal clashes

"You have sprinkled kerosene everywhere. You have set fire to Manipur. You are now trying the same thing in Haryana," he added, referring to recent communal clashes in Gurugram and Nuh.

Gandhi alleged that the prime minister listens to only two people, Amit Shah and Gautam Adani, just as Ravan paid heed to only two. He did not elaborate on the point as the treasury benches started shouting.

The name of Adani evoked a strong response from the treasury benches.

Speaker chides Rahul Gandhi

Speaker of Lok Sabha Om Birla asked Rahul Gandhi not to use these references in his speech. He told him that as a senior member of the house, it is important to maintain the decorum of the house.

Bharat Jodo Yatra

The former Congress president also said the Bharat Jodo Yatra is not over, and he undertook the cross-country march to understand what it was he loved and for what he had faced abuse for 10 years.

"I walked from one end of the country to another, from the coast to the snowy mountains of Kashmir. The yatra is still not over ... Many people asked me after it started, 'Rahul, why did you walk? What is your aim'.

"I did not know why I wanted to walk, but I soon understood the thing that I love and the thing for which I am willing to die and go to Modi ji's jail, the thing for which I bore abuse for 10 years, I wanted to understand," he said.

PM not in the house

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not in the House when Rahul Gandhi gave his speech. PM is going to give his reply on Thursday.

Many Rajya Sabha members were in the gallery when he spoke.