Coordinating with Centre for safe return of 200 Bengal residents stranded in Afghanistan: Mamata

KOLKATA:

West Bengal

chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that her government is coordinating with the Centre for the safe return of over 200 people from the state who are still stranded in

Afghanistan

.

She said that the stranded West

Bengal

residents are from Kalimpong and

Terai

who were working in Afghanistan.

"The chief secretary will write to the

Ministry of External Affairs

(

MEA

) to bring them back," she told reporters.

Holding that the Afghanistan crisis is a big problem, she said, "We must first look after the safety of Indians."

To a question whether the BJP government at the Centre should revisit the immigration policy in light of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, "It is a sensitive issue and a major policy decision. The MEA is monitoring the crisis situation. I shouldn't comment on it at present."