New Delhi, Mar 3 (PTI) The opposition stands united with the government, several leaders said on Thursday after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar briefed the consultative committee of his ministry on Russia's attack on Ukraine and the evacuation ofಞ students from the war-hit nation.
The meeting of the 21-member committee, chaired by Jaishankar, was attended by nine MPs from six parties and came in for fulsome praise from so🌺me leaders.
"We all are united," Tharoor told reporters after the meeting that was also attended by former Co🍌ngress president Rahul Gandhi and his party colleague Anand Sharma.
"Excellent meeting of the Consultative Committee on Exꦕternal Affairs this morning on #Ukraine. My thanks to @DrSJaishankar & his colleagues for a compre𒐪hensive briefing & candid responses to our questions &concerns. This is the spirit in which foreign policy should be run," he added in a tweet.
"... Frank discussions took place in an amicable atmosphere, a reminder that when it coꩵmes to national interests we are all Indi🐲ans first and foremost," Tharoor said.
E꧂ꦡchoing him, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi described the meeting as "very good".
"We were well briefed and stand u🙈nited with the government," she said
YSR Con꧟gress MP Beeseti Venkata Satyavathi said the ministry in the meeting assured the MPs that st꧑randed students would be evacuated in the next few days. PTI JTR NSD MIN MIN
