Injured J&K student airlifted from Dhaka to Delhi, father thanks Modi

ZOOMBANGLA DESK: After a student from Jammu and Kashmir, who met with an accident in Dhaka was airlifted to Delhi, his father thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on whose personal intervention the student was airlifted from Bangladesh’s capital to Indian capital.

“He met with an accident while returning home after completing his five years study,” Aslam Lone, the father of MBBS student Shoaib Lone, told news agency ANI, adding that the family faced difficulties in travelling to the neighbouring country due to issues such as visa, passport etc.

He added that once the family reached Dhaka, they faced problems like language and expenses, the latter of which, he said, were twice as compared to that in India.

Aslam Lone further said that it was at this point that Ravinder Raina, the J&K unit president of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), came to the family’s aid. “In Rajouri, some of our friends met Ravinder Raina ji. He assured them that he will inform PM Modi and get my son shifted to India. I’m very thankful to PM Modi,” the father said.

Saluting the Indian PM, he remarked that any country which has a Prime Minister like Modi should not worry about anything.

Shoaib Lone, a resident of J&K’s Rajouri district who was studying at Barind Medical College in Rajshahi, sustained serious injuries in an accident in Dhaka on June 3.

Raina said that after he came to know about the incident, he sought help from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). “PM Modi personally called India’s ambassador to Bangladesh and asked him to provide all necessary help to the student’s family,” the J&K BJP chief added.

Shoaib is now undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. The air ambulance that brought him from Dhaka landed around 2pm at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport.