‘Very Severe Disaster in Sri Lanka’: Jaishankar at All-party Meet, Says ‘Naturally Fear About Penalties’

Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday mentioned Sri Lanka is going through “a really critical disaster” that makes India naturally anxious. He made the comment throughout an all-party assembly held in Delhi on the unfolding state of affairs within the island nation and dismissed solutions about such a state of affairs arising in India.

Jaishankar and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi have been among the many senior members of the federal government on the briefing, which was additionally attended by opposition leaders equivalent to – Congress leaders P Chidambaram and Manickam Tagore, NCP’s Sharad Pawar and TR Baalu and MM Abdulla of the DMK.

“The rationale we took the initiative to request you all to affix an all-party assembly was…this can be a very critical disaster and what we’re seeing in Sri Lanka is in some ways an unprecedented state of affairs,” Jaishankar, who made the preliminary remarks, mentioned, including, “It’s a matter which pertains to a really shut neighbor and given the close to proximity, we naturally fear in regards to the penalties, the spillover it has for us.”

Jaishankar additionally mentioned there have seen some “misinformed comparisons” within the context of crisis-hit Sri Lanka whereby some folks have requested whether or not “can such a state of affairs occur in India”.

Different who attended the assembly have been – AIADMK’s M Thambidurai, Saugata Ray from TMC, Farooq Abdullah from Nationwide Convention), AAP’s Sanjay Singh, TRS chief Keshava Rao, BSP’s Ritesh Pandey, Vijayasai Reddy from YSR Congress and MDMK’s Vaiko.

Since the previous couple of months, Sri Lanka is going through its worst financial disaster in seven many years as a extreme international alternate scarcity has hampered the import of necessities gadgets, together with meals, gasoline and medicines. The financial disaster has additionally sparked a political disaster within the nation after a public anger in opposition to the federal government. Performing president Ranil Wickremesinghe has declared a state of emergency in Sri Lanka.

(with inputs from PTI)

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