Stepping up attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Manipur violence, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said it does not behove the Prime Minister to laugh and crack jokes in Parliament when the state has been “on fire” for the past three months.

The PM “wants Manipur to burn and allows it to burn”, Gandhi alleged while addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here. Gandhi’s attack came a day after Modi slammed the Opposition in his over two-hour reply to the motion of no-confidence against his government in Lok Sabha. In his over 130-minute reply, Modi spoke on the Manipur issue for barely five minutes.