By Mahaprajna Nayak & Abhishek Kumar

Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine for some hours so that Indian students caught in the conflict could be evacuated and brought back to India.

In an interview with News18 Uttar Pradesh, Union home minister Amit Shah recently said that at the request of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russia and Ukraine agreed on a 72-hour ceasefire to facilitate the evacuation of Indian students. It is a matter of honour for every Indian and a testimony to the growing influence of India across the world, he added. He also made the point that he was following India’s diplomatic ties with other countries for a long time, but this was unprecedented.

Shah also tweeted a clip of the interview.

https://twitter.com/AmitShah/status/1592212541878415360?t=ax0VMoTV_C6tVBFMheVD7Q&s=19

BJP4India, the official Twitter handle of the BJP, quoted Shah’s statement to the TV channel and repeated the claim.

https://twitter.com/BJP4India/status/1592177569532874755?t=dxAm-oa17gTJRgX5Xv9r1A&s=19

While electioneering for the forthcoming Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, BJP national president JP Nadda, too, had made the same claim. While addressing a gathering at Kotkhai, he said that 32000 youth from India were stranded in Ukaraine in the Russia-Ukraine war. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, over phone calls, urged the Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky for a ceasefire and then evacuated the India nationals.

Several prominent people shared the tweeted the statement.

The live stream of the speech is available on BJP’s official YouTube channel. Excerpts from his speech that mention the above statement starts at 20 minutes and 37 seconds of the video.

https://youtu.be/xkL7fAUOQwI

BJP’s official Twitter handle also tweeted the statement made by JP Nadda.

Likewise, BJPLive, BJP Rajasthan, BJP MP from Darbhanga Gopal Jee Thakur, BJP MLA from Chanpatia assembly constituency of Bihar Umakant Singh, and many others shared Nadda’s statement in their tweets.

Fact-check

In a special briefing on Operation Ganga on March 3, 2022, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi categorically denied that Russia or Ukraine had stopped the bombing at the behest of India.

Read full story https://www.altnews.in/j-p-nadda-falsely-claim-russia-stopped-war-at-pm-modis-phone-call/