PM Modi monitoring Ukraine and addressing UP rallies

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.

Updated on: Mar 4, 2022, 09:06:47 IST

By Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

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Amidst the raging Ukraine crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will spend two days in Varanasi in the campaign for the seventh and last phase of the UP Assembly elections. He will be holding a roadshow in Varanasi, which is among the nine districts that go to poll.

PM Modi is constantly monitoring the evacuation of Indian students from Moscow after Russian President Vladimir Putin assured safe passage to the stranded Indians via eastern borders.

While monitoring the global chain of events and constantly involved in the evacuation of Indian students from Kharkiv and Sumy war zones, PM Modi will address an election rally in Mirzapur and later hold a roadshow in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi later this evening. He is expected to stay in Varanasi overnight and address a rally in the Varanasi (Rural) assembly segment tomorrow.

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Although he will be addressing election meetings in the Varanasi-Jaunpur-Sonbhadra belt, PM Modi is constantly monitoring the evacuation of Indian students from Moscow after Russian President Vladimir Putin assured safe passage to the stranded Indians via eastern borders. PM Modi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval are involved in hectic diplomacy with both Russia and the west to get students out safely from war-hit Ukraine.

It is understood that NSA Doval spoke to his Russian counterparty Nikolai Patrushev to push for a safe passage for the stranded Indians from both the cities which are facing heavy bombardment by Putin’s forces.

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India on its part has made it clear that it is for the total cessation of violence from both sides and stands up for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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