Congress pits India’s evacuation mission in Ukraine against LibyaThe Congress party envied the ‘personal involvement’ of Ministers in the evacuation process in Ukraine and began drawing ‘superfluous’ analogies with the mission conducted by the then UPA government in Libya in 2011. On February 26, Congress leader Manickam Tagore tweeted, “In 2011, Dr Singh Sarkar evacuated 15,400 Indians out of war zone in Libya. Screengrab of the tweets by Rahul GandhiUPA-era evacuation of Indians from Libya was slower than ChinaWhile Congress scion Rahul Gandhi had been asking the Modi government to ‘expedite’ the evacuation of Indian nationals from Ukraine, other party leaders had been browbeating about India’s evacuation mission in Libya in 2011. Ironically, the then Congress government was criticised for being ‘slow’ in evacuating Indians from the North African country. Despite multiple advisories by the government, an estimated 16000-20000 Indian nationals remained in the Eastern European country.

Source: Libya Today March 05, 2022 08:49 UTC