Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 1: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jammu and Kashmir today announced the helpline numbers for the stranded Indian nationals in Ukraine.
J&K BJP will try to provide all possible help and support through these helpline numbers. Students and migrants stranded in Ukraine can contact Arvind Gupta on 9419187131 in Jammu and Manzoor Bhat on 9469000077 in Kashmir.
J&K BJP General Secretary (Org) Ashok Koul said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Government at the Centre is making all efforts to bring back people of the country from Ukraine through Operation Ganga, which is yielding positive results.
“So far hundreds of students have been evacuated from the war-torn country, he said. Our honorable PM has formed a special task force of ministers to evacuate the Indian national from Ukraine,” he said.
Union Minister Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Sindhiya, Kirin Rijiju and General V K Singh will visit there to monitor the situation personally.
Koul said information collected from the helpline will be coordinated with the BJP’s central team for further action. Not only at the Government level, but BJP at the State or UT levels has also issued helpline numbers for the stranded Indian nationals,” he said.
He said anyone from Jammu and Kashmir, can contact the given numbers and the party will assure that all the stranded students or laborers of the region will be brought back safely from Ukraine.
“Those students who reached Romania borders are already evacuated and so far, five flights have reached New Delhi. Every stranded person from Ukraine will be brought back to the country,” he said and added that on the borders of Poland and Slovakia, the Central Government is trying to reach out the Indian nationals on the similar lines.
There is Curfew like situation in Ukraine cities and the Government has taken all of them to safer places. Once the situation will be improved, they will be evacuated, he said.
“During the Covid-19 crisis, the Indian Government had launched a special ‘Vande Bharat Mission’ to evacuate its residents from foreign countries. Similarly, Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine will be brought back,” Koul said.