‘Handcuffed deportees’: Haryana Congress MPs slam BJP-led Centre, call episode ‘insult’ to India

“Sending backmost Indian citizens successful handcuffs, shackled successful subject planes is an insult to each Indian and India. The US authorities is humiliatingly deporting Indian citizens connected the ground of amerciable documents, handcuffing them, and shackling them successful subject planes. These youths went determination by selling their onshore and spot successful hunt of employment, putting their lives astatine risk. But present they are facing economical ruin and societal displacement. The BJP authorities has been repeatedly claiming that the President of America is simply a person of PM Narendra Modi, but arsenic soon arsenic helium became the President of America, the PM’s aforesaid person forcibly deported a ample fig of Indians successful specified a humiliating manner,” Hooda said.

Hooda demanded that “the premier curate should instantly speech to the US authorities truthful that Indians surviving successful America for years are not expelled successful a humiliating manner. Apart from this, the cardinal authorities should clasp diplomatic talks with the US to supply ineligible assistance for Indians facing deportation… A ineligible assistance compartment should beryllium acceptable up to assistance the affected families.”

The Congress MP said helium had raised the contented of youths going overseas without a visa successful the Budget league of Parliament past year, but Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister of State, External Affairs, had shrugged disconnected the work and said the authorities was not liable if radical going overseas adopted different means. “If the authorities had taken my words earnestly that day, past we would not person to spot this time today,” Hooda added.

He besides blamed the deficiency of jobs successful Haryana for forcing the youths to follow unfair means to determination abroad.

“According to the information of US Customs and Border Patrol, betwixt October 2022 and September 2023, implicit 90,000 Indians were arrested portion crossing illegally into the US from Mexico aft trekking done the jungles of Panama… Wrong policies of the authorities are wholly liable for the highest unemployment complaint successful Haryana, migration owed to it, and present forced deportation,” Hooda remarked.

Seeking clarifications from the authorities successful the House, Surjewala said, “Why is the authorities silent? Indian citizens were chained for implicit 40 hours and had lone 1 toilet astatine their disposal during this arduous journey. Are Indian citizens terrorists? Why is the authorities silent? Thousands of our Indian brothers and sisters are imprisoned successful US detention centres. How volition they beryllium brought back? Has the authorities raised this contented with the US to supply counsellor entree to Indian nationals detained there?”

Sirsa MP Kumari Selja said if the youths were provided employment opportunities successful India, the existent concern would not person arisen.

“There is an contiguous request to destruct the quality trafficking network, supply fiscal and societal reintegration assistance to the deported individuals, and found a transparent migration model to forestall specified difficulties for Indians successful the future,” Selja added.

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