Trinamool Congress MP Sagarika Ghose on Friday (February 28, 2025) moved a privilege motion against External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar for allegedly giving “misleading and incomplete” information regarding the deportation of Indians from the U.S.
She said that despite the Minister’s assurance that the deportees would not be mistreated, the batch that arrived on February 16 too was shackled.
In a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, Ms. Ghose quoted from a statement Mr. Jaishankar made in the Upper House on February 6, which reportedly said: “We are, of course, engaging the U.S. government to ensure that the returning deportees are not mistreated in any manner during the flight.”
