Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that the central government is bringing thousands of Indians back home by running Operation Ganga. “Our sons, daughters are still stranded Ukraine will be brought back. The Government of India is working day and night for them. Wherever there is trouble, we have left no stone unturned to bring back our citizens,” PM Modi said at an election rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti.
A total of 469 Indian nationals have been evacuated from war-torn Ukraine so far, out of which 200 reached Delhi on Sunday morning and 219 reached Mumbai on Saturday evening.
Meanwhile, the fourth evacuation flight carrying 198 Indians from Romanian capital Bucharest left for India on Sunday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said.
Following the closure of Ukraine’s airspace, India is facilitating the evacuation of stranded Indians from Ukraine through its land border crossings with Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
The first evacuation flight from Bucharest carrying 219 Indians landed in Mumbai on Saturday evening.
The second flight with 250 citizens reached Delhi in the early hours of Sunday.
Air India’s third flight carrying about 240 Indians has also left for Delhi from Budapest, the capital of Hungary. India has named the evacuation mission as ‘Operation Ganga’.
Jaishankar tweeted, “Fourth #OperationGanga flight is on wheel from Bucharest. 198 Indian nationals are coming back to Delhi.”
In an earlier tweet, he said: “The third flight of #OperationGanga with 240 Indian nationals has taken off from Budapest to Delhi.”
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