BJP MLA Arvind Bellad in controversy over his statement on the killed student in Ukraine
March4, 2022: BJP MLA Arvind Bellad's controversial response over the question of bringing back the killed Indian medical student Naveen SG has garnered obscurity. He said bringing a body in a plane takes more space, adding that eight to ten people could be accommodated in that space.
“There is definitely an effort by the government… There is a war going on there. Amid that, an effort will be made and if possible, the body will be returned. Bringing those who are alive is difficult, so bringing a dead body back would be even more difficult. More space is needed to bring a dead body on the flight. In the place required for a dead body, eight persons could be accommodated and brought back,” Arvind Bellad, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA who represents Hubli-Dharwad West seat in north Karnataka, told reporters on Thursday.
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Naveen, a fourth-year medical student at Kharkiv National Medical University was killed in shelling in Ukraine on Tuesday when when he stepped out of his apartment to buy some stuff for himself and those stuck with him. Naveen is the only Indian casualty in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.
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“We could not see our son alive, at least his body should be brought back at the earliest,” his mother appealed on Wednesday.
Congress leaders condemned the MLA’s statement. While BJP's leaders are saying that they would not condemn the statement as it was given by him and not the Party.
Meanwhile, Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai has already announced that bringing back Naveen’s body is the top priority for the state government.
-PTC News
