Swaraj: Will raise blacklisted Sikhs’ issue with Rajnath
Saturday, 22/04/2017
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NEW DELHI: Chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday met Union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and expressed concern over the delay in removing names of Sikh youth enumerated in government’s blacklist for their alleged involvement in “subversive or anti-India activities” in the past.
Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh during a meeting with Israeli ambassador to India Daniel Carmon in Delhi on Friday.
These Indian-origin Sikh youth are barred from visiting India on account of being blacklisted.
Swaraj said she would take up the issue with the Union home ministry, which was in the process of gradually pruning the list. The minister also accepted Amarinder’s request for opening another passport office in Nawanshahr to facilitate NRIs and their families in Doaba.
The Nawanshahr passport office will be in addition to the recently sanctioned passport office in Patiala, which is to be inaugurated soon.
The CM urged the minister to take up the matter of racist attacks on Punjabis abroad at the international level.
