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