The hope of return of 21 Indian youths stranded in Saudi Arabia has brightened with the External Affairs Ministry initiating the process of preparing their passport to bring them home. These 21 youths all from Sangrur district of Punjab have been stuck in Saudi Arabia for quite some time.
Aam Aadmi Party MP Bhagwant Mann, who had been instrumental in taking up the issue of their release, said all these men will be brought back to India in a couple of days. Mann met the authorities in External Affairs Ministry on Thursday and had facilitated telephonic contact between the stranded youth and the officials.
These youngsters had been caught there without passports as they had lost the document at the hands of travel agents who had sent them abroad. Parents of some of the youngsters had provided copies of their passport to the Ministry and on the basis of their documents, the Ministry is getting fresh passports prepared for these youngsters.
Expressing hope of their early return, Mann said that 8 of these men are stuck at one place and 13 on the other. He said that the Indian Embassy in Saudi Arab has been asked to get in
touch with all these youngsters and Government of India has been making all efforts to bring them back at the earliest.