Unsurprisingly, Goa is full of them too. From The India Cable:
“It took a Romanian mayor to rip apart PM Modi’s gimmick of despatching four Union ministers to Europe for ‘evacuation’, which the Indian newspapers have hailed as yet another masterstroke. In an interview to The Quint, Mihai Anghel, Mayor of Snagov, explained that his verbal spat with Jyotiraditya Scindia was because he was standing up for the Indian students, who wanted to know just one thing ― when were they going home? “Our team received 157 Indian students. We received little help from the embassy here and all the food and other necessities were provided by us. The citizens of the Snagov region provided all of it. Then I saw this gentleman walk in in the late evening, appearing full of himself with cameras, and addressing the students in a very arrogant tone. He was as if prepared to present a PR speech, and not comfort the students who had just fled war and wanted to go home,” he said about the minister. “I am receiving a barrage of hate messages possibly from paid trolls who are bombarding my official pages. I am a politician and I can handle all this, but receiving a hate message from foreign citizens and not my own people, is a first,” he reveals. But the students sheltered in Snagov have been sharing messages of gratitude to Anghel for his help. Ukraine has been a happy hunting ground for photo-ops by Scindia and company to help the BJP in its UP election campaign. Earlier, students refused to say “Modi ji ki…” on cue. Now, Scindia faces satire, which the BJP has a healthy fear of”. Roland. Toronto.
