Criticising the Centre, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked the government to urgently share its evacuation plan with those stranded in Ukraine and their families as he shared a video of some students being harassed by the military there.
"My heart goes out to the Indian students suffering such violence and their family watching these videos. No parent should go through this," he said on Twitter while sharing the video of some students. The GOI must urgently share the detailed evacuation plan with those stranded as well as their families. We can't abandon our own people," he also
said.
Rahul and the Congress have been criticising the government for not evacuating Indian students in time from Ukraine and have called for urgent steps to evacuate them, after Russia attacked
Ukraine.
A number of Congress leaders have shared videos of Indian students in Ukraine highlighting their plight and making appeals to the Indian government to evacuate them soon.
The Congress also tweeted the video of Indians being beaten up in Ukraine and
said,
"These sticks on foreign land are falling on the honour and prestige of the country, not on the children of the country, Prime Minister ji. Leave elections, remove the stress of the children of the country, Prime Minister ji."
The Congress' official statement on Russian invasion was diplomatic and in line with the government's stand at the UN after abstaining from a vote to denounce Russia.
"The path of diplomatic negotiations must be embraced in all sincerity for a negotiated resolution of all issues between Russia and Ukraine, respecting the Minsk and Russia-NATO agreements and earlier understandings," former Union Minister Anand Sharma, who heads the party's foreign affairs department, said in a statement.