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Chandigrah, April 3 : Congress legislators from Amritsar and Gurdaspur districts today criticised the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the meagre relief announced for the kin of the victims killed by the ISIS in Iraq.
In a joint statement the legislators including Sukhjinder Randhawa, Sukh Sarkaria and Harpartap Ajnala said, Rs ten lakhs announced by Mr Modi was too little and too late.
They demanded that the government of India must pay Rs one crores each to the families of the victims. They said, the government of India first tried to play down the tragedy by lying and saying that the victims were alive despite an eyewitness saying that they had been killed two years ago.
The Congress legislators asserted that the government of India was running away from its duty and responsibility towards its citizens. They pointed out, it is the duty and the responsibility of the central government to ensure safety and security of its citizens in the foreign countries.
“May Mr Modi tell us, what measures were taken except for telling the nation lies that the victims were alive while they had been killed long ago thus giving false hope to their families”, the legislators said, while adding that the central government had played a cruel joke with them as theirs was not an ordinary tragedy.
The Congress leaders asked the government whether it had ever issued any preventive and safety advisory for its citizens as where they should avoid going normally done by most of the countries.
“We are sure that the central government has still not done anything of that sort despite the fact that people are still risking their lives and going for work to troubled countries”, they said, while asking the Prime Minister to learn to value the lives of the Indian citizens.
