35 Mangaluru youths deprived salaries, food in Kuwait; calls for help from Media, political leaders
Kuwait: As many as 200 Indian including 35 people from Mangaluru are fighting for their survival in the gulf nation of Kuwait after they were trapped by a recruiting agency in Mangaluru and were sent to Kuwait on the promise of lucrative jobs, but as it turned out they have not been paid their salaries from last six months and to make things worse, their employer has now stopped giving them food and daily essentials.
In a viral video made and shared by the victims, the victims are seen pleading for help from the authorities and Mangaluru MLA Vedavyas Kamat. The victim also names Prasad Shetty and Manikya associates as the one who trapped them with job offers.
Prasad Shetty reportedly took Rs. 65,000/- from each of the victims for giving them lucrative job in Kuwait. When the victims landed in Kuwait, the scenario changed and they are now not been paid salaries for last six moths.
“Today, the company informed us that the food supply to us will also be stopped now. Our families are struggling to meet their financial needs back home and we are helpless as we can’t do anything without our salaries. We seek immediate assistance from Media, political leaders of Mangaluru to help us. We call upon Mangaluru MLA Vedavyadas Kamat to support us” the victims are seen pleading in the video.
MLA Kamat, responding to the video assured help to the victims and added that he will take up the matter with authorities and government. He also assured immediate aid to the victims through his friend in Kuwait and added that he would try his best to get the victims back at the earliest.
The victims in the video also complains that their call for help to the Indian Embassy in Kuwait went in vain as the embassy didn’t respond properly to their complaint.
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Women's quota bill would have ensured defeat of democracy, Constitution: Aaditya Thackeray
Mumbai (PTI): Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said that the passage of the women's quota bill would have ensured a "total defeat of democracy", alleging that the legislation, linked with a delimitation exercise, was a political tool designed to reduce the voice of states.
Thackeray, in a post on X, claimed that the Bill would have amended the Constitution for the political means of the ruling regime to increase seats, reduce the voice of many states and enable the gerrymandering of constituencies to ensure unfair victories.
"The very amendment that would have ensured the total defeat of democracy and the Constitution in India stands rejected by the unity of the Opposition MPs," he wrote.
The legislation should have been called "Delimitation to ensure unfair victory Bill", the former minister said, adding that there was a genuine need to enable 33 per cent reservation for women in the current number of seats.
"Now, it is up to the government to ensure that it is implemented in the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha for the 2029 elections and all elections across India, if that is the real intent of the government," he wrote.
A Constitution Amendment Bill to implement reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats was defeated on Friday in the Lower House.
While 298 members voted in support of the Bill, 230 MPs voted against it. Out of 528 members who voted, the Bill required 352 votes for a two-thirds majority.
According to the Constitution Amendment Bill, Lok Sabha seats were to be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
