Maharashtra Nationalist Congress Party president Jayant Patil on Thursday said that 100 persons from his hometown Sangli are stranded in strife-torn Sudan and urged external affairs minister S Jaishankar to bring them back.

To evacuate Indians from the crisis-hit nation, the Centre has launched `Operation Kaveri`. The first batch of 360 Indians arrived at the Delhi airport from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday night, while an Indian Air Force aircraft with 246 Indians landed in Mumbai on Thursday.