The Shiv Sena on March 7 claimed that the Indian government woke up to evacuate students from Ukraine only after angry reactions from those stranded in the war-hit country. An editorial in the Sena mouthpiece ' Saamana' said when the U.S. and European nations evacuated their students even before the war began, the Ministry of External Affairs was issuing an advisory to people to leave Ukraine. “Where was the government's contribution there?” it asked.
“When students were stuck in Ukraine, expressing their pain, our Prime Minister [Narendra Modi] was beating the ‘ damru’ (small drum). Stop the sham of ‘Operation Ganga’ and rescue Indian students stranded in Sumy (Ukraine), this is what students returning from Ukraine are saying,” it added.
