Very critical disaster in Sri Lanka, naturally fear about spillover: Jaishankar at all-party meet

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka is going through “a very serious crisis” that makes India naturally anxious, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar instructed an all-party assembly right here on Tuesday and dismissed recommendations about such a scenario arising in India.

Jaishankar, who made the preliminary remarks, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi have been among the many senior members of the federal government on the briefing, which was additionally attended by P Chidambaram and Manickam Tagore of the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Sharad Pawar and T R Baalu and M M Abdulla of the DMK.

“The reason we took the initiative to request you all to join an all-party meeting was this is a very serious crisis and what we are seeing in Sri Lanka is in many ways an unprecedented situation,” Jaishankar mentioned.

“It is a matter which pertains to a very close neighbour and given the near proximity, we naturally worry about the consequences, the spillover it has for us,” he added.

Jaishankar additionally mentioned there have seen some “misinformed comparisons” within the context of Sri Lanka whereby some folks have requested whether or not “can such a situation happen in India.”

M Thambidurai (AIADMK), Saugata Ray (Trinamool Congress), Farooq Abdullah (National Conference), Sanjay Singh (Aam Aadmi Party), Keshava Rao (Telangana Rashtra Samithi), Ritesh Pandey (Bahujan Samaj Party), Vijayasai Reddy (YSR Congress) and Vaiko (MDMK) have been amongst those that attended the assembly.

Sri Lanka is going through its worst financial disaster in seven many years, with a extreme overseas alternate scarcity hampering the import of necessities, together with meals, gasoline and medicines.

The financial disaster has additionally sparked a political disaster within the island nation after a well-liked rebellion towards the federal government. Acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe has declared a state of emergency within the nation.

Political events from Tamil Nadu such because the DMK and the AIADMK had demanded at an all-party meet earlier than the Parliament’s monsoon session started that India ought to intervene within the disaster shrouding the neighbouring nation.

NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka is going through “a very serious crisis” that makes India naturally anxious, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar instructed an all-party assembly right here on Tuesday and dismissed recommendations about such a scenario arising in India.

Jaishankar, who made the preliminary remarks, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi have been among the many senior members of the federal government on the briefing, which was additionally attended by P Chidambaram and Manickam Tagore of the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Sharad Pawar and T R Baalu and M M Abdulla of the DMK.

“The reason we took the initiative to request you all to join an all-party meeting was this is a very serious crisis and what we are seeing in Sri Lanka is in many ways an unprecedented situation,” Jaishankar mentioned.

“It is a matter which pertains to a very close neighbour and given the near proximity, we naturally worry about the consequences, the spillover it has for us,” he added.

Jaishankar additionally mentioned there have seen some “misinformed comparisons” within the context of Sri Lanka whereby some folks have requested whether or not “can such a situation happen in India.”

M Thambidurai (AIADMK), Saugata Ray (Trinamool Congress), Farooq Abdullah (National Conference), Sanjay Singh (Aam Aadmi Party), Keshava Rao (Telangana Rashtra Samithi), Ritesh Pandey (Bahujan Samaj Party), Vijayasai Reddy (YSR Congress) and Vaiko (MDMK) have been amongst those that attended the assembly.

Sri Lanka is going through its worst financial disaster in seven many years, with a extreme overseas alternate scarcity hampering the import of necessities, together with meals, gasoline and medicines.

The financial disaster has additionally sparked a political disaster within the island nation after a well-liked rebellion towards the federal government. Acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe has declared a state of emergency within the nation.

Political events from Tamil Nadu such because the DMK and the AIADMK had demanded at an all-party meet earlier than the Parliament’s monsoon session started that India ought to intervene within the disaster shrouding the neighbouring nation.