Congress asks government to ‘wake up and protect Indians’ in war-torn Afghanistan
With the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, the Congress on Monday asked the Modi government to wake up from its slumber and protect Indians in the conflict-torn country.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the situation in Afghanistan is extremely dangerous and India’s strategic interests are at stake, but the government has not made any plans to evacuate its citizens there, which is a gross dereliction of duty. The Modi government’s refusal to set in motion a well thought out plan to evacuate our citizens is a gross abdication of its duty and completely unacceptable.
“The Congress party stands firmly to defend India’s interests and looks forward to a mature political and diplomatic response from our government on the complete fall of the government in Afghanistan and the takeover of the Taliban,” he told reporters.
“Despite this, the shocking silence of the Narendra Modi government is deeply disturbing and extremely intriguing, which is beyond any reasonable comprehension. The Modi government’s refusal to give impetus to a well-thought-out plan to evacuate our citizens is not an act of duty.” There is gross abandonment and is completely unacceptable,” he also said.
“The situation in Afghanistan is extremely worrying. India’s strategic interests are at stake. The safety of our embassy and its personnel and Indian citizens is at stake. The Modi government needs to wake up from its slumber and protect Indian citizens in Afghanistan,” he said. Is.” tweeted.
The Congress leader said that the Taliban and Haqqani network have well-known links with Pakistan’s ISI and Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar, Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
“It is in this background that there is an urgent need to rethink our geopolitical interests and its impact on Jammu and Kashmir. Sadly, the Modi government is oblivious to this,” he said.
Surjewala said that the Prime Minister and the External Affairs Minister need to come out and clearly state our policy for the safe return of our citizens, embassy personnel as well as our future relationship.
“The unexplained silence at this critical juncture raises a reasonable apprehension that the Modi government is hiding something from the country. We are still in the dark over the role of the Modi government in the Doha talks,” the Congress leader said.
He said that the need of the hour is that the Modi government should wake up from sleep and tell the country how it will deal with the dangerous situation in the neighbourhood.
Referring to media reports quoting the Ministry of External Affairs, he said that the Indian government does not take responsibility for Indians returning from abroad and said that it is shameful.
He said, “If safe return of Indians from abroad is not your responsibility then whose responsibility. No other country has done this. Every country is taking care of its citizens and taking them back and taking back their property. “
He also said that this is a very strange statement of the Ministry of External Affairs.
Taliban insurgents broke into the Afghan capital on Sunday after the government collapsed and President Ashraf Ghani left the country.
The US has said it will deploy 6,000 troops to the crucial Kabul airport to ensure the safe departure of American citizens and its allies from Afghanistan in the sudden and unprecedented collapse of the elected regime.
Unprecedented views and views are being seen in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, where panic-stricken people are trying to flee the country.
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