NRIs fret post Brexit fallout

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, former mayor of Gravesham, a city south-east of London, while talking to The Indian Express over phone from England stated that this development will have far-reaching consequences. “It has definitely strengthened the rightists. While Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to be with EU, the overall UK result for separation doesn’t auger well for the existence of the United Kingdom, which comprises of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland,” he said. HE added that most of the Punjabi community believed it would be better for Britain to remain in the European Union.

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A resident of Wolverhampton, Parkash Singh Raman, who had migrated to the UK nearly five decades ago, echoed Dhesi’s views and said that this will tighten the immigration norms too and that with this UK is isolating itself.

“It will lead to an uncertainty and unsettling in many ways which will get unfolded in future,” said Raman.

“The NRIs in the UK contribute substantially towards the Punjab economy and weakening of pound will affect Punjab economy too,” said former NRI sabha president. Some other claim that the new immigration policy that will be arrived at will discourage immigrants.