'Making All Efforts to Bring Normalcy, 11,000 FIRs Filed': PM Modi on Manipur| Highlights

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday and participated in a discussion on the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address. PM Modi's Modi's address concentrated on crucial topics like corruption, Bengal violence, NEET scam, inflation, and the Agniveer scheme, all of which have been subjects of discussion in the upper House of Parliament thus far.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Prime Minister addressed the Lok Sabha following which the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die. Speaker Om Birla said it recorded a productivity of 103 per cent.

Prime Minister Modi's address in the Rajya Sabha follows his fierce rebuttal of Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha the previous day. The prime minister accused Rahul Gandhi and the Congress of focusing all their efforts on propagating the notion that the BJP-led NDA lost the 2024 general elections, despite the coalition securing a historic third term.

PM Modi made several jibes Modi made several jabs at Gandhi and the INDI bloc after the Leader of the Opposition was accused of "associating Hinduism with violence" in his response to the Motion of Thanks.

Highlights from PM Modi's Rajya Sabha speech here:

• Rajya Sabha adjourned sine die after PM Modi's speech on Motion of Thanks to President's Address
• PM Modi said, “We are trying our best to bring peace in Manipur, asks everyone to cooperate.”
• Stop politicising Manipur issue, one day Manipur will reject you: PM Modi to Congress
• Manipur facing flood situation; Centre helping state, has sent 2 NDRF teams: PM Modi in RS
• Government is making all efforts to bring normalcy in Manipur, 11,000 FIRs were filed and incidents of violence are declining: PM Modi in RS
• PM Modi said, "The amount of work we have done in the northeast region in the last 5 years would have taken 20 years for Congress to do."
• I assure youth that govt will not spare those playing with their future: PM Modi on medical exam paper leaks
• Fight against terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir is in its last stage; terrorism, separatism waning: PM Modi in RS
• PM Modi said, “They want to talk about Constitution, but not about Emergency. Congress is the biggest opposition to the constitution. They say Emergency is in the past. Are you sins washed away with time.”
• “Emergency was not just a political crisis. Along with democratic and Constitutional, it was also a humanitarian crisis. Several people were tortured, several died in the jail,” said PM Modi
• PM Modi said, "For me, the fight against corruption is not the scale for electoral wins or losses. I am not fighting corruption to win or lose elections. This is my mission, my conviction. I believe that corruption is one such termite that has hollowed out the nation. I am working wholeheartedly to free this country of corruption and to build hatred against corruption in the minds of common people."
• I have given full freedom to probe agencies to act against corruption; govt will not interfere: PM Modi in RS
• PM Modi says Congress is trying to hide its black deeds by displaying copy of Constitution
• PM Modi said in the Parliament, “Congress has an anti-SC/ST/OBC mindset due to which, they kept humiliating former President Ram Nath Kovind. With this mindset, they left no stone unturned in insulting the first tribal woman President of the country and used words they no one else can.”
• I say with all seriousness that Congress is biggest opponent of Constitution: PM Modi in RS
• PM Modi schooled Opposition for 'Save Constitution' rant and said, “They (opposition) said that the 2024 election was the first in the country where the primary agenda was to 'save the Constitution.' I want to remind them of the 1977 election. The media was muzzled. The entire country voted to save the constitution in 1977. If this (2024) election was to save the Constitution, then people showed their faith in the NDA to save it.”
• "The Opposition's selective attitude on atrocities against women is very worrying. I have seen a video from Bengal on social media where a woman was being beaten. The incident which happened in Sandeshkhali. But even the senior leaders (of the opposition) have not said a word about it," said PM Modi
• Benefits of women empowerment are visible across all sectors. One crore women in self help groups have become 'lakhpati didis', number will increase to 3 crore in coming years: PM Modi
• PM Modi said, ‘The country is watching that those who spread lies do not have the strength to hear the truth’
• We focus on development and not on vote-bank politics: PM Modi in Rajya Sabha
• "Our government has worked to make laws for transgender people. Even people in the West are surprised that India is so progressive. Our government has come forward to give opportunities to transgenders in the Padma Awards as well", said PM Modi
• 'We worked for the transgender community, gave them an identity': PM Modi in Rajya Sabha 
• It is my duty to give detailed account of works done by government to people: PM Modi in Rajya Sabha
• Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar slammed the Opposition walkout during PM's speech and called it a “big respect to Constitution”.
• During Congress’s tenure, there was a scheme for Rs 60,000 crore farmers' loan waiver but names of the needy small farmers were not even included in the list of beneficiaries.
• As Opposition walked out, PM Modi said, "The country is watching that those who spread lies do not have the strength to hear the truth. Those who do not have the courage to face truth, do not have courage to listen to the answers to questions that were raised in these discussions. They are insulting the Upper House, the glorious tradition of the Upper House."
• Opposition insults house, stages walkout during PM Modi's speech in Rajya Sabha 
• "The work done in the last 10 years is just the appetizer, the main course is yet to be served," says PM Modi.
• "The people of India rejected politics of religion and accepted politics of trust," says PM Modi.
• “After many decades, the people have elected a government for a third term,” says PM Modi. 
• PM Modi replies to address the Rajya Sabha on Motion of Thanks to the President' Droupadi Murmu's Address. 
• PM Modi to shortly address the Rajya Sabha on Motion of Thanks to the President' Droupadi Murmu's Address. 

As proceedings of Rajya Sabha began this morning, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhhar offered condolences on the loss of lives in the stampede in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh. Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge called on the government to enact legislation aimed at preventing similar incidents in the future. The Chairman asked the leader of the House to work together with LoP so that such events can be avoided.