Government today convened an All-Party Meeting on the West Asia situation in the Parliament House complex in New Delhi. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh chaired the meeting, which was attended by Home Minister Amit Shah, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, JDU Working President Sanjay Jha and Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, including other leaders.  

 

Congress leader Mukul Wasnik and Tariq Anwar, CPI (M) MP John Brittas, Samajwadi MP Dharmendra Yadav and other leaders of opposition parties were also present in the meeting. The meeting comes amid escalating tensions in West Asia, which have disrupted critical maritime corridors and raised concerns about the safety of Indian nationals in Gulf nations.

 

The all-party meeting follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to Parliament on the situation in West Asia. In his statement in Parliament, Prime Minister Modi said the government has constituted seven empowered groups to develop strategies on fuel, supply chains and fertilisers, among others, to mitigate the impact of the Iran-Israel-US conflict.