Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who had gone to pick up Indian students from Romania in the midst of Russia Ukraine Crisis, had a confrontation with the Mayor of Romania. Its video also became very viral. The Congress said that Scindia was taking credit for saving the students, which was opposed by the Mayor of Romania. But in reality, what had happened between these two, the reason for this has come to the fore.
Didn’t like doing PR in front of troubled students
Mayor of Snegov town of Romania Mihay Engel has told the truth of the conversation with Scindia. In an interview to The Quint, the mayor said that he did not want any political controversy. He was only concerned about the Indian students. Those who had somehow come out of the war-torn area and wanted to know when and how they would reach India. According to the mayor, Scindia had reached there late in the evening with cameras etc. It seemed that he had come to give a PR speech. Whereas he should have consoled the panicked students.
Students were not being told when to leave
The mayor said that these students had come here on February 27 after crossing the Siret border. He was given shelter in a gymnasium in a village in Snegaon. Indian officials attached to the local embassy told him that the buses would arrive by the next day. According to the mayor, when Scindia reached there and he also hoped that the troubled students would soon get answers to all their questions. But Scindia had not even told the students in his address that when they would get out of here. When is his flight to India? Rather he was telling them that some dogs have been safely taken out from there. My displeasure was on the fact that the students should be told in detail by when they would reach their homes safely.
I didn’t know minister
The mayor said that I was angry because I was sad about those children. He said that I had heard his pain and I did not want him to be used for any PR shoot. The mayor told that he did not know that Scindia was a minister. He said that even if I had known this, I would have been equally angry. However, later there was a conversation between the Mayor and Scindia and both of them also shook hands.