New Delhi: Amid speculation, protests and opposition questions over 39 Indians missing in Iraq since they were kidnapped in 2014, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj will make a statement in parliament this evening.
The Congress had said it would submit a privilege motion against the minister in the Lok Sabha for "misleading the nation, parliament and families" of the kidnapped Indians.
Alleging that Ms Swaraj had "lost all credibility", Partap Singh Bajwa, a lawmaker of the main opposition party, had referred to media reports that the jail in Badush where Ms Swaraj had said the Indians were held was in ruins.
Their fate is expected to dominate the discussions between Ms Swaraj and visiting Iraqi foreign minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari today.
One of them, Harjit Masih from Gurdaspur, had managed to escape and had claimed to have witnessed the massacre of the others. But the government has rejected it.
Ms Swaraj had told the family members that an Iraqi official quoting intelligence sources had told Mr Singh that the kidnapped Indians were deployed at a hospital construction site and then shifted to a farm before they were put in a jail in Badush.
The Congress had said it would submit a privilege motion against the minister in the Lok Sabha for "misleading the nation, parliament and families" of the kidnapped Indians.
Alleging that Ms Swaraj had "lost all credibility", Partap Singh Bajwa, a lawmaker of the main opposition party, had referred to media reports that the jail in Badush where Ms Swaraj had said the Indians were held was in ruins.
Their fate is expected to dominate the discussions between Ms Swaraj and visiting Iraqi foreign minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari today.
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One of them, Harjit Masih from Gurdaspur, had managed to escape and had claimed to have witnessed the massacre of the others. But the government has rejected it.
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Ms Swaraj had told the family members that an Iraqi official quoting intelligence sources had told Mr Singh that the kidnapped Indians were deployed at a hospital construction site and then shifted to a farm before they were put in a jail in Badush.
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