Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to hold a road show in Varanasi today while constantly monitoring student evacuation and attending to hectic global diplomacy on Ukraine.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will spend two days in Varanasi to campaign for the seventh and last phase of the UP assembly elections amid the Ukraine crisis. He will hold a roadshow in Varanasi, which is one of the nine districts where polling is to be held.
Monitoring the global chain of events and relentlessly involved in evacuating Indian students from Kharkiv and Sumi war zones, PM Modi will address an election rally in Mirzapur and later this evening hold a roadshow in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi. He is expected to stay overnight in Varanasi and address a rally in Varanasi (Rural) assembly constituency tomorrow.
Though he will address election meetings in the Varanasi-Jaunpur-Sonbhadra belt, PM Modi will be continuously monitoring the evacuation of Indian students from Moscow after Russian President Vladimir Putin assured stranded Indians of safe passage through the eastern borders. are. PM Modi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval are involved in a busy diplomacy with both Russia and the West to secure a safe evacuation of students from war-torn Ukraine.
NSA Doval is understood to have spoken to his Russian counterpart Nikolai Petrushev to push for a safe passage for Indians stranded in both the cities, which are facing heavy bombardment by Putin's forces.
India, on its part, has made it clear that it stands for a complete end to violence from both sides and stands for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.