Telangana Deputy CM seeks Sushma Swaraj’s help in bringing stranded workers back from Saudi Arabia 

Hyderabad: Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali sought External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s intervention in bringing back workers who are stranded in Saudi Arabia after losing jobs.

The employers have abandoned these poor laborers and they are living in camps without salaries for the last 7-8 months, Ali said in a letter to Sushma Swaraj.

“Of the total of 9,000 stranded Indian employees, 30 percent are from rural Telangana and are poor. Their relatives were pressing the state government to facilitate their return to India,” he said.

“Therefore I request to use all your good offices by conducting necessary deliberations with the authorities concerned in both the countries to resolve the issue at the earliest,” Ali said.

With thousands of Indians left in the lurch after losing jobs due to the financial crisis in Gulf countries, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh left for Saudi Arabia to work out modalities to bring back those who want to return to India.