Indian govt. should send more relief to Palestinians, says JD(U)‘s K.C. Tyagi
The Hindu
The Indian government’s release of aid to UNRWA on July 16 was the first tranche of the total $5 million annual payment that India will make for the UNRWA during 2024-25
On a day when India released $2.5 million to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Janata Dal-United (JD-U) spokesperson K.C. Tyagi urged the Union government to provide more proactive support in relief and aid for Gazans amid mounting casualties there, as well as put its weight behind efforts to get the United Nations to implement its resolutions on the issue.
The JD(U) is an important ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), helping prop up the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, and a State ally in Bihar.
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Mr. Tyagi is a member of the League of Parliamentarians for Al-Quds, which has Members of Parliament from across the world, current and former, as members. The organisation, which held a conference from April 26-28 in Istanbul, has come down heavily on Israel in its resolutions, demanding that schools and hospitals not be bombed in Gaza as part of the conflict there, following the October 7 attack by the Hamas leaving over 1,200 Israelis dead.
“We want the effective implementation of UN resolutions, for Israeli military action to spare schools and hospitals, to put a stop to building of illegal settlements on Palestinian lands, protection to the Al Aqsa mosque, and shifting of the Israeli capital to Tel Aviv,” Mr. Tyagi said.
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Samajwadi Party (SP) MP in the Rajya Sabha, Javed Ali Khan, had also attended the conference in Istanbul.