In order to have Prime Minister Narendra Modi address concerns over ethnic riots in a northeastern state in-depth, the Indian parliament on Wednesday authorised a no-confidence vote against the administration.
The 301-member majority held by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the lower house of parliament’s 542-seats ensures that the government remains stable despite the no-confidence vote.
Instead, the opposition wants to start a discussion about the violence in the remote, BJP-ruled state of Manipur, where more than 130 people have died and 60,000 have been displaced since it started in early May.