After a long wait of four and half months , at last with the efforts of Aam Aadmi Party MP Bhagwant Mann, the dead body of Davinder Singh 28 son of Nazar Singh, who died in Saudi Arabia on April 25, has arrived at his native village Rurka near Mullanpur today morning and later cremated. Mr. Mann visited village Rurka and expressed his grief and sympathies with the family. State Jt. Secy. Administration and Grievance Cell Darshan Singh Shankar, Renowned sports promoter Jagroop Singh Jarkhar, Bassi Lalton Parkash Singh Jandiali also attended the cremation. The parents explained that they had sent their son to Saudi Arabia by arranging heavy loans and now unable to return after the death of their son.
Later interacting with the media , Mr Mann stressed upon the need to simplify the procedure to bring back the bodies of unfortunate Indians, who die in foreign countries by Ministry of Foreign Affairs , as the families and relatives in such cases were facing a lot of harassment because of ignorance about the procedure. . He said that he had to make a lot of efforts to bring the body of Davinder Singh back to the family . He informed that the illiterate and poor rural people were the badly affected as the send their wards to Arab countries for labour jobs. He informed that 7-8 more dead bodies will arrive in the coming days and dead body of a boy of Gurdaspura village in Sangrur district will arrive tomorrow. He regretted that at present there was no facility of helpline and the people were ignorant about the procedure. He added that around one dozen more applications were being submitted to the MEA for bringing the bodies back.
Answering a question about the controlling of out siders Observers, Mr Mann said in routine all the national parties depute observers to states that we had been addressing meetings in Delhi during last elections and the observers Congress and BJP were also looking after Punjab affairs. He added that the allegations were being generated by SAD under a deep rooted conspiracy against AAP keeping in view the large crows of people in the AAP conferences.