61 in UK urge govt to bring them home

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Jun 5, 2020, 13:00 IST

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As many as 61 Indians from the state have urged union minister for external affairs S Jaishankar to facilitate their return home as they have been stranded in the UK for three months now.

HYDERABAD: As many as 61 Indians from the state have urged union minister for external affairs S Jaishankar to facilitate their return home as they have been stranded in the UK for three months now.
“We have families and jobs to return to and have financial burdens from our long stay,” the group of people said in a plea to union minister for civil aviation Hardeep Suri, state chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and IT minister KT Rama Rao.

“We hope that our government will seriously consider our requests to bring us home,” they said.
“HCI UK has a list of all the people registered and waiting to be repatriated to Hyderabad. Our petition is on behalf of all Telangana residents stranded in UK and it is not only for the names on it,” they said. They have been stranded in London since March 24.
It is not just the 61 people listed but there are others too who have not been able to return in the evacuation flight operated earlier under the Vande Bharat Mission. Mohammed Sohail Ahmed Khan from the city is another person who has been stuck in London. In fact, he was returning to India from Toronto, Canada, on April 2 and had to take another flight to India from Heathrow airport but there were no flights due to Covid-19 lockdown. “I have been spending my money for accommodation and food and want to return to India at the earliest,” he said. Ahmed could not be on the evacuation flight to India as his departure was not confirmed.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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