Sushma’s intervention sought for release of Punjabi youth
Wednesday, 17/09/2014
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Chandigarh: Punjab Congress on Tuesday urged the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to take up on priority the case of release of nine Indian youth detained by Kuwait government in an alleged murder case.
In a letter to Swaraj, President Partap Singh Bajwa said eight of these youth were from Punjab and the ninth one was from Rajasthan and were working with Ahmadiya Construction Company there.
It was a very serious issue demanding immediate intervention, Bajwa was quoted as saying in a party release.
He informed Swaraj that these workers were arrested as prime suspects in the murder of an Egyptian co-worker whose death was subsequently declared as ‘natural’, caused due to a heart attack.
Providing details, he pointed out that originally, a total of 11 Indians were arrested in this case. Two of them got bail due to sincere efforts of some Punjabi social workers residing in Kuwait but rest of them were still in the custody of Kuwait police.
Neither the Indian Embassy nor their company was showing any concern to help them, he alleged.
He claimed that these young Punjabis were the victims of personal grudge which started over some petty argument which later converted into a dispute.
‘Bypoll results reflect fall of Modi’s popularity’
Chandigarh: Describing the bypoll results in some states as ‘re-assertion of the secular thought,’ Punjab Congress on Tuesday said it reflected the fall of popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on whose ‘wave’ BJP had swept to power in the Lok Sabha elections. State Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa said the popularity graph of ‘a leader and his party,’ in an apparent reference to Modi, had nosedived steeply within 100 days of being in power at the Centre.
