Modi May Address India Ethnic Violence in No Confidence Vote
- Ruling party has supermajority in lower house of parliament
- Indian parliament debate on motion starts from Tuesday
Narendra Modi
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi might address the deadly ethnic violence in northeast India before a no confidence vote brought by the opposition this week in an attempt to force a debate in a legislature dominated by his allies.
Modi won’t lose the parliamentary vote scheduled Thursday as the coalition led by his Bharatiya Janata Party has a supermajority in the lower house. The opposition is instead focusing on pressuring Modi on his government’s handling of the killings in remote Manipur state bordering Myanmar ahead of a national vote due by May 2024.