Bring in policies to rehabilitate NRI Kannadigas who are returning after losing jobs: CM urged
SDPI state secretary and social activist Riyaz Farangipet, in a letter, recommended the new CM Kumaraswamy to take necessary steps for the rehabilitation of non-resident Kannadigas, who are returning home with empty hands, after losing their jobs due to the crisis in Gulf countries.
Today, countless Indians are staying in Gulf countries as non-resident Indians to win bread for their families here. These NRIs have given their contribution to this country as long as employment and trading were good in abroad. According to a recent report from World Bank, India is at the top of the list of the countries that saved money in banks from abroad. With this, India's economy is progressing along with the generation of revenue. We need to know the fact that 50 percent of this income comes from the Gulf countries.
A large number of these non-resident Indians are Kannadigas. Kannadigas have always been philanthropists. Among them, the coastal Kannadigas are always on their toes for social service. We have seen a lot of community services, education institutions, hospitals and many social service institutions run by these NRI Kannadigas. Also, they are spending their hard earned money in indigent patients’ treatment, in educational and housing facilities.
However; due to changed conditions in Gulf, Gulf countries’ localised policies and new labor laws; many NRIs have lost their jobs, and a few others are in fear of losing the same. Even the self-employed are not safe from this. About 40 percent of the NRI Kannadigas have already returned to their homelands after losing their jobs. Other 60 percent, who lost their jobs in Gulf countries, are counting days to return to Karnataka.
The non-resident Kannadigas who were giving donations once upon a time, are now in a position to beg. In a letter written to the Chief Minister, Riaz Farangipete has said that HD Kumaraswamy who was taken oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka should consider all such issues and implement a project to provide jobs to the non-resident Kannadigas who have been returning to their motherland and thus bring back the happiness among unemployed non-resident Kannadigas. You have become a Kalpavruksha for farmers and now, you should become oasys for unemployed non-resident Kannadigas, he said in the letter.
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Surat LS candidate Nilesh Kumbhani whose nomination form was rejected suspended from Congress
Ahmedabad, Apr 25: The Gujarat Congress on Friday suspended from the party for six years its Surat Lok Sabha candidate Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form was rejected over discrepancies leading to the BJP's Mukesh Dalal getting elected unopposed.
A statement from the Congress said the party's disciplinary committee decided to suspend Kumbhani after thorough discussion, adding it had come to the conclusion that the nomination form was rejected due to gross negligence on his part or "in connivance with the BJP".
"To be fair to you we have given time to you to explain your case but instead of coming before the party disciplinary committee you have gone incommunicado. After your form was rejected by the authorities, BJP went ahead and got form of other eight candidates withdrawn. This has deprived people of Surat their voting rights," the Congress disciplinary committee headed by Balu Patel said.
"People of Surat and party workers have become very angry due to your action and are expressing their anger in different ways. The Congress party has decided to suspend you for six years from the party," the press note said.
Kumbhani's nomination form was rejected on April 21 after his three proposers submitted affidavits to the district returning officer claiming the signatures on the document was not theirs.
The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated on the same grounds.
In his order, Returning Officer Sourabh Pardhi said the three nomination forms submitted by Kumbhani and Padsala were rejected after prima facie discrepancy was found in the signatures of the proposers and they did not appear to be genuine.
Kumbhani, a former corporator from Surat, had unsuccessfully fought the 2022 Assembly polls from Kamrej there.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed from Surat Lok Sabha constituency on April 22 after all other nominees, including one from BSP, withdrew from the fray one by one on the last day of withdrawing papers.
