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Pawan Khera, president of the Congress party’s media and publicity department, said, “Looking astatine the pictures of Indians getting handcuffed and humiliated portion being deported from the US saddens maine arsenic an Indian.” (File photo)
The Congress claimed connected Wednesday that Indians being deported from the US were “handcuffed and humiliated”.
The connection from the main Opposition enactment comes a time aft a United States subject level began deporting Indian migrants, implementing directions issued by President Donald Trump against an estimated 11 cardinal amerciable immigrants successful that country. Reuters reported that the C-17 craft carrying 205 Indian nationals departed from San Antonio, Texas. Sources said the passengers see those from Gujarat, Punjab, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
Pawan Khera, president of the Congress party’s media and publicity department, said, “Looking astatine the pictures of Indians getting handcuffed and humiliated portion being deported from the US saddens maine arsenic an Indian.”
“I retrieve successful December of 2013, an Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was handcuffed and portion searched successful America. Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh registered a beardown protestation with US Ambassador Nancy Powell,” said Khera successful a station connected X.
“The UPA govt retaliated sharply. Leaders similar Ms Meira Kumar, Sushil Kumar Shinde & Rahul Gandhi refused to conscionable the US Congressional delegation (George Holding, Pete Olson, David Schweikert, Rob Woodall and Madeleine Bordallo) that was visiting India astatine that time,” helium added.
About the 2013 incident, Khera said that the past premier curate Manmohan Singh had “termed the US enactment ‘deplorable’”. “Govt of India withdrew respective perks fixed to the US embassy, including imports of nutrient and intoxicant astatine concessional rates by embassy staff,” Khera said.
“Income Tax section started investigating the American Embassy school… John Kerry expressed regrets astatine the attraction fixed to Devyani Khobragade. US medication called up overseas caput Sujatha Singh to convey the regrets of the USA,” said the Congress leader.
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Congress’s lawman person successful Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi besides protested against “the mode successful which the United States authorities has sent Indians backmost to our country”. “The mode they are being chained is demeaning and dehumanising. I cannot recognize wherefore Prime Minister Modi is soundless connected the mode Indians are being treated by the Trump administration,” Gogoi said successful a station connected X.
On the deportation of Indians, a US embassy spokesperson successful Delhi had said connected Tuesday: “The United States is vigorously enforcing its border, tightening migration laws, and removing amerciable migrants. These actions nonstop a wide message: amerciable migration is not worthy the risk.”
This is the archetypal batch of amerciable immigrants from India to beryllium deported since Donald Trump’s instrumentality to office.
As The Indian Express reported connected January 21, 2025, determination are 20,407 “undocumented” Indians, arsenic of November 2024, who are either facing “final removal orders” oregon are, currently, successful detention centres of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Both Khera and Gogoi could not beryllium reached for comment.
Asad Rehman is with the nationalist bureau of The Indian Express and covers authorities and argumentation focusing connected spiritual minorities successful India. A writer for implicit 8 years, Rehman moved to this relation aft covering Uttar Pradesh for 5 years for The Indian Express. During his clip successful Uttar Pradesh, helium covered politics, crime, health, and quality rights among different issues. He did extended crushed reports and covered the protests against the caller citizenship instrumentality during which galore were killed successful the state. During the Covid pandemic, helium did extended crushed reporting connected the migration of workers from the metropolitan cities to villages successful Uttar Pradesh. He has besides covered immoderate landmark litigations, including the Babri Masjid-Ram temple lawsuit and the ongoing Gyanvapi-Kashi Vishwanath temple dispute. Prior to that, helium worked connected The Indian Express nationalist table for 3 years wherever helium was a transcript editor. Rehman studied astatine La Martiniere, Lucknow and past went connected to bash a bachelor's grade successful History from Ramjas College, Delhi University. He besides has a Masters grade from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. ... Read More
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