India’s Modi to face no-confidence vote over Manipur violence

Narendra Modi’s BJP has a clear majority in the lower house of parliament, so the vote is unlikely to affect the government’s stability.
India’s parliament has authorized a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government by an alliance of opposition parties, to force the Hindu nationalist leader to address in detail concerns about ethnic clashes in a northeastern state. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a clear majority of 301 members in the 542-seat lower house of parliament, so the no-confidence vote will not affect its stability. The opposition instead wants to trigger a debate about the violence in remote, BJP-ruled Manipur state, in which more than 130 people have been killed and 60,000 displaced since it began in early May. Approving the opposition motion, lower house speaker Om Birla on Wednesday said he would soon decide when the debate and vote would take place.
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