Nov 28, 2024 04:42 PM IST
Minister of state (MoS) for exterior affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh on Thursday stated that the Authorities of India believes that asylum seekers, whereas making use of for asylum to a overseas authorities, denigrate the nation.
“The Authorities of India believes that asylum seekers, whereas making use of for asylum to a overseas authorities, denigrate the nation and society to acquire private positive factors even if India, being a democratic nation, offers avenues for everybody to redress their grievances lawfully,” Singh stated in a response to a query on the topic in Rajya Sabha.
Singh was answering unbiased Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal’s query in regards to the variety of Indians who’ve sought asylum in overseas nations within the final three years and the present yr.
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In response, Singh stated that correct information in regards to the variety of asylum functions, grounds for such functions, the precise variety of individuals granted asylum and grounds thereof was not out there because the overseas governments involved cite incapability to share such information because of privateness and information safety legal guidelines.
Sibal had additionally requested if there was an 800% improve between 2021 and 2023 within the variety of Indians looking for asylum within the US, whereby half of them had been from Gujarat.
He additionally requested in regards to the steps being taken by the Indian authorities to handle the problem of Indians looking for asylum overseas.
Singh, nonetheless, didn’t reply both of the 2 questions.
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