Paradigm shift needed in evacuation of Indians stranded in Ukraine: CPI(M) MP
Hindustan TimesNEW DELHI: Alleging “critical flaws” in India’s evacuation of Indian students from Ukraine, Rajya Sabha parliamentarian John Brittas wrote to the minister of external affairs, S. Jaishankar, on Sunday, and said that the evacuation policy needs to change. CPI Rajya Sabha MP, John Brittas alleged that the Indian students stranded in Ukraine need to go through the ‘herculean task” of getting their documents processed in the recipient country and are facing ‘offensive behavior and manhandling at the border camps’. “There needs a paradigm shift in the operating procedure of the evacuation policy by the MEA to extend help to those stranded Indian nationals to successfully cross the Ukrainian borders and to complete the processing of their documents without hardships and undue delay, by taking actions in tandem with the officials of Ukraine and neighbouring countries,” Brittas wrote. The second flight carrying 250 Indian nationals stranded in war-ridden Ukraine landed in Delhi early Sunday morning, said Union minister for civil aviation, Jyotiraditya Scindia.