Thread by @gauravsabnis

At least in Sushma Swaraj days, the MEA used to take care of these things in time. Under the current MEA, the priority is more on throwing tantrums about people criticizing Modi, and keeping an eye on Indians abroad protesting against Modi

Not this absolutely basic job.

https://twitter.com/ridhimb/status/1496760398661382144

I had just assumed, given that this war was pretty much advertised by Russia for weeks, that the MEA must have been evacuating Indians.

Instead the pushback from IT cell is blaming Indians for not leaving earlier. Like it's a bus ride away.

#NewIndia

https://twitter.com/ridhimb/status/1496760398661382144?t=P0_hYvtVJUNxHFwzEsK4Zw&s=19

Yeah, this advisory from Feb 15 is so not enough and in fact embarrassingly irresponsible. There should have been details of dozens of planes arranged by the MEA for Indians to leave. Not just "y'all should leave". You're not a news agency. You're the embassy!

Don't distract them from keeping tabs on who is saying mean things about modiji

https://twitter.com/ankitsh/status/1496845102157025281?t=lAMbbfIBYBkVNtwmFS2m0Q&s=19

US State Department said very clearly and explicitly weeks ago that citizens should leave ASAP and given Russia-US relations these days, a military rescue Kabul style would not be possible. Not the wishy washy "may consider leaving" MEA thing.

jpost.com/israel-news/ar…

Also the state department coordinated with commercial airlines to make sure enough seats and flights were available in the last two weeks for Americans in Ukraine. Indian government was caught napping. Again.

This "why didn't they leave earlier" pushback is so horribly cruel and devoid of any empathy. It's not easy to just up and leave a foreign country with war clouds and a pandemic. Some people make the call to stay in case the situation diffuses.

Don't scold them FFS! How cruel!

It is seriously infuriating to see more & people swallowing & regurgitating the sanghi IT cell narrative that it is the fault of the students for not leaving Ukraine earlier. Not that the main reason we have embassies in any country is for exactly this. Not for hosting banquets.

Also, in typical sanghi cruelty and lack of empathy, they are portraying the stranded students as spoilt clueless rich kids. Which is first of all irrelevant. An Indian citizen has a right to embassy help. But also factually incorrect. Students in Ukraine are not moneybags.

Ukraine as a destination for grad school, especially medical school, is chosen by Indian students who can't afford US, UK, Australia, Europe, often even India. These students stranded in Kyiv need to be treated like precious cargo by the Indian embassy, not an annoyance.

This disgusting display of incompetence and petulance by the MEA and sanghi ecosystem is yet another sign of how the longer Modi rules, the more he hollows out once competent institutions in India.
MEA, even during his own first term, was way more competent & kinder than this.

With each passing year, month, week, day, they continue their takeover of institutions by getting rid of independent minds and filling them with yes-men and yes-women. The priority is not competence, but adherence to the sangh diktats.

Saving face above saving lives.

The people who joined IIT to teach engineering, Indian Science Congress to promote science, MEA for genuinely doing diplomacy and helping compatriots abroad, those with passions for the jobs, have been pushed out. Replaced by those whose only priority is Modi winning.

Seriously, has the average Modi supporter completely given up empathy? How can you not imagine yourself stuck in some faraway country's airport with no way to get home and literal tanks and warplanes and missiles being launched? And feel for them, instead of deriding them?

This thread. This could be any of us tomorrow. Hope her tweets eventually rise to the level where her literal employee, the public servant Jaishanker, decides to do actual embassy work instead of just obsessing over who is saying mean things about Modi.

https://twitter.com/payalmulani2/status/1497029038044762112?t=28pb-LipbDz60YaUBs0CVA&s=19

Since Modi govt talks only in its own propaganda slogans, umm, @PMOIndia
@DrSJaishankar, "beti bachao".

Kuchh toh kaam kariye. Din bhar sirf WhatsApp propaganda chalaati hai Modi sarkar.

https://twitter.com/payalmulani2/status/1497029593869471749?t=28pb-LipbDz60YaUBs0CVA&s=19

Nothing upsets the Modi government more than expectations of actual governing.

It is really pissing me off how the ITcell #MalviyaMavalis are throwing all their resources at shaming Indians in Ukraine for not leaving Ukraine rather than shaming the Indian govt for not being there for Indians wanting to leave Ukraine.

Sanghis are so lazy and useless!

If the Indian embassy in Kyiv can't get Indians out when they want, can we still have "vishwaguru" delusions?