With hundreds of Indian students still stranded in the war-ravaged Ukraine, Congress Lok Sabha leader Adhir Chowdhury on Sunday attacked the Narendra Modi Government for failing to appreciate the situation well in advance so as to evacuate the Indian nationals from that country.
Alleging that Modi Government was in “election mode whereas it should have gone into evacuation mode after correctly evaluating the
situation,” Chowdhury who also the president of the Bengal Pradesh Congress said the “Government did not consider the situation seriously … they failed to read the situation in Ukraine … which led to the delayed reaction and the result is for all to see.”
Wondering why the Centre did not take concrete steps in evacuating the Indians he said “when we decided to abstain from voting (in UNO) on the issue we should have known what to expect and this is the reason the Government should have acted quickly in evacuating the students earl.” The Ukrainian situation required, “political wisdom and sense of responsibility on the part of the Indian establishment but that was missing here … the Government was in election mode whereas it should have gone into evacuation mode taking the situation with the seriousness it deserved,” he said.
Attacking the Indian diplomats for failing to read the situationChowdhury said “today we find that the diplomats are basically careerists and … lack the quality of statesmen … they only go up there
for masti (fun) that comes with the job … along with the political establishment they too have messed up with the situation for which thousands of students and their family members are suffering.”
Trinamool Congress leadership too attacked the Centre for taking the Ukrainian situation in a very “casual manner.” Bengal minister Bratya Basu too said that electoral victory and not the safety of its citizens mattered the most for the BJP Government.
“Only elections and not safety and security of the common people matter the most for the BJP Government … common man’s life is not very important for them … we saw how they messed up with the situation in
Afghanistan, we saw how this Government behaved the lakhs of migrating workers during the lockdown … and now we are seeing how the Indians have been left to fend for themselves in Ukraine,” the Bengal minister said.