- Friday, April 26, 2024
On Thursday, the diplomat will meet Sikh refugees from Afghanistan who left that country after it was taken over by Taliban in 2021, the Delhi BJP said in a statement.
By: Shubham Ghosh
Indian external affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will on Thursday (8) kick off his two-day outreach programme under the Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) month-long campaign to highlight achievements of the Narendra Modi government in the last nine years.
On Thursday, he will meet Sikh refugees from Afghanistan who left that country after it was taken over by Taliban in 2021, the Delhi BJP said in a statement.
The minister, accompanied by West Delhi parliamentarian Parvesh Verma, will also meet a 1984 anti-Sikh riots-affected family at Tilak Vihar during the day, it said.
In the Basai Darapur area of the national capital, Jaishankar will meet the students forced to leave their studies in Ukraine due to the Russian invasion of the country last year, the statement said.
He will visit Guru Arjun Dev Gurudwara at Mahavir Nagar in West Delhi at 3 pm local time where he will meet Afghan Sikh refugees.
Jaishankar, along with former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, has been deputed by the national leadership of BJP to oversee the month-long campaign in seven constituencies of the Lok Sabha or Lower House of the parliament in Delhi.
The external affairs minister will also meet prominent persons and interact with groups of professionals in different parts of West Delhi and New Delhi parliamentary constituencies on June 8-9, said a senior party functionary.
He will meet famous photographer and Padma Shri awardee Naresh Bedi at his residence in Rajouri Garden and Lt General S K Gulati (retd) during his outreach programme on Thursday, said the statement.
In his next leg of outreach, Jaishankar will attend various programmes in South Delhi and Northwest Delhi Lok Sabha constituencies on June 15 and June 17, party leaders said.
(With PTI inputs)
