S Jaishankar Meets PM Amid Deportation Of Indians Who Entered US Illegally

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, amid an uproar over the "inhuman" deportation of 104 Indians who entered US illegally.

The Union minister is also expected to deliver a statement in the Parliament on the matter. The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned within minutes of convening for the day as the Opposition demanded a discussion on the "deeply distressing and humiliating" manner of deportation.

A US military aircraft carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants landed in Amritsar on Wednesday, the first such batch of Indians deported by the Donald Trump government as part of a crackdown against illegal immigrants.

Of them, 33 each are from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three each from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh. Nineteen women and 13 minors, including a four-year-old boy and two girls, aged five and seven, were among the deportees, sources told PTI.