New Delhi, Jul 16 (PTI) AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has asked Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri to provide a repatriation flight to bring back over 100 Indian students stranded in Taiwan.

In a letter dated July 12 to Puri, Singh claimed many of the students have been  stuck there for more than three months.

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"Many of them have exhausted whatever money they had and are unable to afford the chartered flights which are charging almost 6 times the normal fare. List of some of the students who are stranded there is with embassy," Singh said.

"I would like to request you to kindly provide a repatriation flight through Vande Bharat Mission from Taiwan to India as more than hundred Indian students are stranded there," he added. 

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