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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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
