Rahul Gandhi was speaking at the press conference at the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters on Friday. (Image: inc.in)

Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that the PM ‘seems to have forgotten’ Manipur.

Mr Gandhi was speaking at the press conference at the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters on Friday.

In his speech that lasted more than two hours, the PM spoke Manipur for just two minutes, said Mr Gandhi.

The PM was ‘laughing, joking, and raising slogans, but it seems he has forgotten that the state of Manipur is on fire and has been on fire for many days’ he added.

The Prime Minister was then replying to the no-confidence motion moved by the opposition against his BJP led government over the ongoing ethnic violence in the Northeastern Indian state of Manipur.

‘Women and children are dying, women are being molested and raped and the Prime Minister of India is sitting in the middle of Parliament and laughing’, said Mr Gandhi in the press conference.

‘This is not about Rahul Gandhi, it is not about the Congress, it is not about the Opposition. It is about India, it is about our country’, he added.

He slammed BJP and said that their administration and policies have destroyed a state [Manipur]. The politics of the BJP is to ‘divide, rule and burn’, he added.

According to The Hindu reports, Mr Gandhi said that ‘”the PM should be above politics as he is the representative of all of us including mine’”.

“Politics should be put aside and the PM should not speak as a petty politician, as the leader of a political party, but he should speak with the weight of the Indian people behind him. It is tragic to watch Narendra Modi, it is sad because the Prime Minister does not understand what he actually is”, Mr Gandhi said accusing PM.