Sant Seechewal helps poor youth returns from Morocco to India

Published on: 04 Apr 2024 at 08:05 PM

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Sultanpur Lodhi, April 4

Arshdeep Singh, a 22-year-old youth stuck in Morocco for the past 10 months, has returned home due to the efforts of Rajya Sabha member Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal.

Nirmal Singh, a resident of Muridwal, had collected Rs 13 lakh from relatives and other relatives to send his son Arshdeep to Spain and gave it to a travel agent living in Pammana village. Arshdeep said that he had boarded a flight from Jaipur to Spain in June 2023 but the travel agent trapped him by taking him to Morocco. He said that whatever money he had was spent on hotel rent and food. He used to demand 15 to 20 thousand rupees every week from home to stay in the hotel where he lived. Whereas the travel agent kept insisting every day to send them to Spain. It became difficult for him to stay in Morocco and the hotel expenses for 10 months came to around Rs 7 lakh. Arshdeep said that there were other boys along with him who contacted Rajya Sabha member Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal through Facebook and told him their entire story. After which his father Nirmal Singh along with other prominent people of the village met Sant Seechewal on March 19 at Nirmal Kutiya Sultanpur Lodhi. Sant Seechewal immediately wrote a letter to the Ministry of External Affairs and informed them about the entire situation. The Indian Embassy in Morocco contacted him and ensured his return home and he reached home safely on March 28. The victim’s family thanked Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal and said that due to his efforts 10 more Punjabis also managed to return home .Arshdeep claimed that . On this occasion, Rajya Sabha member Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal compared travel agents to executioners and said that he does not regret anyone’s poverty. He said that such travel agents are taking advantage of the helplessness of the poor and deceiving the youth by showing them dreams of glittering foreign countries, Which needs to be avoided. Referring to Muridwal resident Nirmal Singh, he said that he was so poor that despite being a mason, he could not even build a bathroom in his house. He appealed to the youth of Punjab not to run after the glitter of foreign pounds and dollars, but with this money they can run their business in India itself. Box Item: Arshdeep is the brother of 3 sisters: Nirmal Singh Arshdeep’s father told that his three daughters are going to get married. All three are elder than Arshdeep. He himself works as a mason. He had taken the loan with the intention that poverty in the house would go away, his daughters would get married and a good house would also be built. But the travel agent’s fraud dashed their dreams and left the victim’s family under a debt of Rs 20 lakh. He appealed to the Punjab Government to take strict action against the travel agents of the state and return all their money so that they can repay the debt they have incurred.