By TCN News,
New Delhi: Welfare Party of India national president Mujtaba Farooque, in a letter to Mrs. Sushma Swaraj, the Minister for Foreign Affairs urged her to intervene for repatriation of the 32 Indian women workers stranded for months in Saudi Arabia.
Urdu news daily Siasat of Hyderabad carried the news on 13th August that these 32 hapless women were cheated by recruiting agencies with promises of decent jobs and now they are languishing at a shelter home operated by Saudi Arabian interior ministry in Riyadh.
Mujtaba Farooque referred to media reports which say most of these women are educated and are held up now in the shelter home as they find it impossible to pay the compensation as demanded by their sponsors. Referring to the pain and sufferings of the women workers there in Saudi Arabia and their families here in India, WPI President requested the minister to explore all political and diplomatic channels to get these women released and united with their families at the earliest. In the letter he referred to the excellent job done recently by the minister in bringing back Indian nurses stranded in Iraq. The President also asked to identify the recruiting agencies that cheated these women and take punitive actions against them so that such incidents might not recur again.
Welfare Party President also wrote a letter to Mr. Saud bin Mohammed Al-Saty, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador in Delhi with the same demand and promised of all possible cooperation and assistance for the release and repatriation of the stranded Indian women workers.