Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met Australian High Commissioner in India at New Delhi’s Gujarat Bhavan today and requested him to come to Gujarat to meet parents of the students who have been attacked in his country. According to the sources, Aussie High Commissioner invited Modi to visit his country.

Meanwhile, in a press statement in Ahmedabad today, Australian High Commissioner to India John McCarthy, after meeting with Gujarat Chief Minister told the media that Australia is working towards bringing those guilty of attacks against Indian students to book. Reacting to the news the12th attack against an Indian in Adelaide, McCarthy said no government could guarantee that every attack would cease immediately, however the Australian government would continue to persevere.

“I talked with the Chief Minister Narendra Modi about the situation in Australia regarding Indian students specifically in this case Gujarati students…I explained to him the situation in Australia, the greatly intensified police measures being taken, in particular in Melbourne and Sydney. I explained the fact that there has been a meeting of all education ministers in Australia, that is to say both the Federal education minister and the state education ministers at which a number of resolutions were made to make sure that this problem is resolved,” he said.

“I explained also that it appeared to me that the issues in Sydney had considerably quietened down thanks to the efforts of the Indian Consul General in Sydney and the efforts of police in Sydney. And that we hoped that the difficulties to different ethnic groups – the Indians and Lebanese – would dissipate. We are also not resigning at all from pursuing the necessity to diminish crimes against everybody in Australia in this instance of course, specifically those from India.

“I have outlined to him the measures that the government has been taking and will be taking in future… I have undertaken to keep him and his government informed of our steps that continue to be taken to make this problem go away,” said McCarthy to reporters.

McCarthy accepted that there had been continuing reports of attacks against Indians in various parts of the country, to which he retorted “It is a big country, you do not expect every attack to cease immediately, and we are making every effort to ensure that these attacks do stop. And we are going to continue to do that, but obviously no government in any country would say, over the next 2 weeks no crimes are going to be committed in relation to A, B or C. But we are making every effort that this stops and it will stop.”

He said that the students in Australia were being visited by the Australian authorities at both the state and federal levels as well as the Indian government itself had been extremely active on their behalf including both the High commissioner in Canberra and the Consuls General in Melbourne and Sydney.

Finally, McCarthy said he would ensure a group representing the Australian government came to visit Ahmedabad “to answer any questions that may be of concern to parents there and to talk to relevant authorities there.”