{"id":292211,"date":"2022-03-01T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T07:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=292211"},"modified":"2022-03-01T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T07:51:10","slug":"russia-ukraine-crisis-yashwant-sinha-indian-students-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/russia-ukraine-crisis-yashwant-sinha-indian-students-evacuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Ukraine crisis: Former union minister Yashwant Sinha says 18000 is not very large number, India have evacuated 1,70,000 people from Kuwait in 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday slammed PM Modi government for the Centre’s tardy progress in evacuating Indian students from Ukraine, which is reeling under Russian attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sinha, a foreign minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government said 18,000 stranded Indian students in Ukraine is not a very large number compared to airlifts India has done in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

India had successfully undertaken a far bigger evacuation exercise during the Gulf war in 1990, Sinha said claiming that India had evacuated 1,70,000 people from Kuwait between August and October 1990. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sinha alleged that the government knew the crisis was coming and should have taken timely steps to bring those willing to come back when the airspace over Ukraine was open. Even after the airspace closed, Indian embassy in Ukraine should have made arrangements to have the students leave by bus or whatever transport available as soon as possible to neighbouring countries, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Union Minister further said the government should have been prepared with a contingency plan. While it has now dispatched four ministers to nations bordering Ukraine, it should have been done earlier, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had earlier accused the government of not taking effective steps and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being missing in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opposition Congress and Trinamool Congress have attacked the government over efforts being done by the PM Modi government to evacuate Indian students from Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"