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PM Modi Spoke to…”: Rajnath Singh Says Russia-Ukraine War ‘Stopped for 4.5 Hrs’ for Indian Student Evacuation
PM Modi Spoke to…”: Rajnath Singh Says Russia-Ukraine War ‘Stopped for 4.5 Hrs’ for Indian Student Evacuation
On Monday, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh asserted that the fighting was momentarily stopped to allow for the evacuation of Indian students who were stuck in Ukraine after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the presidents of Russia and Ukraine. India carried out Operation Ganga in 2022 to save pupils who were stuck. Many thousands of students left Ukraine between the latter week of February and the first week of March, traveling through nearby nations like Romania, Hungary, Poland, Moldova, and Slovakia.
Defense Minister Singh declared, “There is a war going on between Russia and Ukraine” while speaking at an election rally in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir. There were a lot of Indian students enrolled. Russia and Ukraine were firing missiles at each other, killing a great number of people in the process. The presidents of Russia, Ukraine, and America were addressed by our prime minister. The conflict was temporarily stopped to allow for evacuation, according to Singh, and this assisted India in rescuing its citizens. “The conflict ceased for 4.5 hours, and 22,500 of our pupils arrived in India from Ukraine,” the minister of defense continued.
BJP’s repeated claim to woo voters; opposition terms it propaganda
Though the opposition condemns it as propaganda, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) officials have often brought attention to this rescue expedition during their election campaigns in an attempt to garner support. Senior Congressman Rahul Gandhi criticized the assertion that Prime Minister Modi “stopped war” on social media, branding it as the “Papa of Propaganda.”
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What is the government’s official stand?
The minister of external affairs denied the assertion during a regular news briefing. The MEA’s spokesperson at the time, Arindam Bagchi, said, “We got specific inputs that this is a route that is available; we conveyed that to our citizens, and I am happy that many could make it.” “Extrapolating that to say that somebody is holding off bombing or that this is something we were coordinating is inaccurate.”
