Kejriwal meets kin of Indians stuck in Iraq

“My son called me a week ago and told me to take care of his children. That was the last time I spoke to him. The government has told us that they are taking care of our children stranded there. But these are false promises. We want them to give us proof for their promises. This insensitivity on the government’s part is because their own children are not stranded there. They do not care about the well-being of a poor person’s child,” Surinder Kaur said.

The AAP leaders also appealed to the Central government to be “more pro-active in ensuring the safe return of Indian workers still stuck in Iraq”.

“The absence of any information about the plight of 39 abducted countrymen is a matter of grave concern and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj should make a statement in Parliament about the latest situation,” the AAP said.

The AAP chief was accompanied by four party MPs from Punjab — Bhagwat Mann, Dharamvira Gandhi, Harinder Singh Khalsa and Sadhu Singh.

Stating that the issue was not related to “party politics”, the party said, “At least 3,000 Indians are still stranded in conflict-hit Iraq and there is still no word on the plight of 39 workers abducted by the ISIS. They have now spent more than five weeks in custody. The government has made some efforts to get Indian workers from Iraq safely back home, but those are highly inadequate. The sense of urgency and emergency response required is missing on the government’s part so far.”