'Share details of evacuation plan'

Congress has asked the government to make public the details of its evacuation plans for the stranded Indians in Ukraine.

"To avert further tragedy, the Government of India must share: 1. How many students have been evacuated. 2. How many are still stranded in Ukraine. 3. Region-wise detailed evacuation plan. We owe a clear strategy and communication to the families involved," said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a tweet.

Congress MP Manish Tewari, meanwhile, has hit out at the BJP central ministers who have been visiting airports to receive the home-bound India students and 'highlighting the efforts of the Centre and assuring all help to those who are still stranded'. "Beyond Pathetic. The braggadocio by these NDA/BJP Ministers. For God Sake if you are getting Indians out you are not doing anyone a favour. It is your job God Damn it. Every Indian Govt from First Gulf War-1990 onwards has done pretty much the same in every crisis and even before," Tewari tweeted.


Tewari's stinger came in response to a news agency putting up a video clipping of Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya addressing, in an aircraft at the Delhi airport, some students back from Ukraine telling them about the 'efforts PM Modi was making to get them safely back home' and exhorting them to 'call up and assure their friends who were still stranded in Ukraine that they too will be brought home safely'.