By Rupam Jain
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's&nbsp;parliament on Wednesday authorised a no-confidence&nbsp;vote&nbsp;against Narendra Modi's&nbsp;government&nbsp;by an alliance of opposition parties, to force the prime minister to address in detail concerns about&nbsp;ethnic&nbsp;clashes&nbsp;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&nbsp;vote&nbsp;will not affect its stability.
The opposition instead wants to trigger a debate about violence in the remote, BJP-ruled Manipur state, where 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 said he would soon decide when the debate and&nbsp;vote&nbsp;would take place.
The&nbsp;ethnic&nbsp;tensions in the small state of 3.2 million people are seen as a rare security and political failure by Modi's&nbsp;government, which will face a national election by May 2024.
Further incidents of arson and the destruction of some abandoned houses,&nbsp;government&nbsp;offices and vehicles by armed mobs were reported from at least two districts of Manipur on Wednesday, a local police official said, asking not to be named.
Modi had not commented in public about the violence until last week, when videos showing two women being paraded naked and molested by a mob in Manipur sparked national outrage.
Modi condemned the mass assault as "shameful" and promised tough action against the perpetrators.
Opposition parties have, however, disrupted the monsoon session of parliament which began last week, to demand a detailed statement by Modi on Manipur in parliament, followed by a debate.
As head of the&nbsp;government, he will have to respond to the no-confidence&nbsp;motion before it is put to&nbsp;vote.
The&nbsp;government&nbsp;has offered a statement from Home Minister Amit Shah, saying internal security is his ministry's responsibility.
The violence began on May 3 after a court ordered the state&nbsp;government&nbsp;to consider extending special economic benefits and quotas in&nbsp;government&nbsp;jobs and education enjoyed by the tribal Kuki people to the majority Meitei population as well.
Shashi Tharoor, a leader of the main opposition Congress party, said the&nbsp;government&nbsp;must invest time to answer questions about Manipur.
"Everyone knows that Manipur has witnessed horrendous loss of lives in violence, sexual assault and displacement. How can this not be the main agenda?" Tharoor told Reuters.
(Additional reporting by Zarir Hussain in Guwahati; Editing by YP Rajesh, John Stonestreet and Barbara Lewis)

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