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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday (March 29, 2026) appealed to each citizens to travel unneurotic to look the challenges emerging owed to the ongoing "fierce war" successful West Asia and said everyone should enactment vigilant and not autumn prey to rumours.
Addressing his monthly vigor broadcast 'Mann Ki Baat', Mr. Modi besides said helium was profoundly grateful to the Gulf countries for providing each imaginable assistance to much than 1 crore Indians surviving and moving there.
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He said a "fierce war" has been raging successful "our neighbourhood" for implicit a month.
"This is undoubtedly a challenging time. Through today's 'Mann Ki Baat', I erstwhile again impulse each 140 crore chap citizens that we indispensable travel unneurotic arsenic 1 to flooded this challenge. I entreaty to each my chap citizens to enactment vigilant and not autumn prey to rumours," the Prime Minister said.
The West Asia struggle started connected February 28. While the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, the Islamic Republic retaliated by targeting Washington's allies successful its neighbourhood and Tel Aviv.
Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, a cardinal shipping way done which 20 per cent of the world's vigor is transported. Since the struggle began, Iran has allowed precise fewer ships to transverse it.
Mr. Modi has spoken to a fig of satellite leaders, including those from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Iran, France, Israel and Malaysia, since the struggle started.
He has besides spoken to U.S. President Donald Trump. After a telephonic speech betwixt the 2 connected March 24, Modi said helium "had a utile speech of views connected the concern successful West Asia".
On March 23, 2026, Mr. Modi spoke successful the Parliament astir the West Asia conflict.
In a connection successful the Lok Sabha, Mr. Modi said the hard planetary conditions caused by the West Asia struggle are apt to persist for a agelong clip and called upon the federation to stay prepared and united, conscionable arsenic it had stood unneurotic during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mr. Modi addressed concerns related to the interaction connected fuel, fertilisers, nationalist information and different areas successful India arsenic good connected its nationals residing successful the West Asia region, detailing steps taken by the authorities to guarantee that “ordinary families look arsenic small occupation arsenic possible”, and said a unanimous dependable should spell retired to the satellite from India’s Parliament connected this crisis.
Reaffirming India’s unwavering committedness to humanity and peace, the premier curate said the dialog and diplomacy stay the lone way to solution and each Indian effort is directed astatine de-escalation and the cessation of hostilities.
Informing the House that helium has engaged with each applicable West Asian leaders and urged them to trim tensions and extremity the conflict, Modi emphasised that attacks connected commercialized ships and obstruction of planetary waterways similar the Strait of Hormuz, done which 20 per cent of the world’s vigor is transported, are”wholly unacceptable”.
