12/03/2026
Kochi, Mar 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the Centre and Gulf nations were doing everything possible to help Indians stranded during the ongoing conflict in West Asia.
Addressing a massive NDA rally here, he said the BJP-led NDA government always makes every possible effort to help its citizens when they are in trouble.
"Be it saving the nurses stranded in Iraq or freeing Father Tom from the clutches of terrorists in Yemen, India now does not abandon its citizens in their time of crisis.
"Father Alexis Premkumar was safely rescued and brought back from Afghanistan. Even today our aim is to ensure that Indians stranded in West Asia amidst the war are safe and receive all possible facilities," the PM said.
He said that he was "happy" that the governments of the Gulf nations were taking care of Indian citizens there and he was "grateful" to them.
Modi also said that Indian embassies and missions in those countries were working 24 by 7 to ensure food, medical aid,...