Indian Origin Woman From UK Stranded at Kathmandu Airport After Being Barred From Boarding Relief Fl

[Bang Galore]

I didn't support that action as these are the same people who create soft image of our country in the world.
These are the same people who lobby for us.

While that is true, there is no way an Indian citizen can be left hanging while a British citizen gets a place.

 

[Manindra]

Common misconception, the term NRI can only be used for Indian citizens who spend most of their time abroad. A person who has surrendered Indian citizenship is not an NRI. Remittances come from NRI's, very rarely from people who have taken other nationalities since they have little reason to invest predominantly in India. Statistics will back that up.

From Canada to UK to Thailand there are plenty of people they accepted foreign citizenship but send money to India.
Most of the real NRIs resides in gulf countries. I use that word because I didn't find appropriate word to use it.
We use them to lobby for our nation in the world, to create a soft power but in return we just refuse a single lady in return to rescue ?

While that is true, there is no way an Indian citizen can be left hanging while a British citizen gets a place.

Does a single lady dent our rescuing capability so much ?
As per I know we rescued 170 foreign citizens before this incident.

 

[Bang Galore]

Does a single lady dent our rescuing capability so much ?
As per I know we rescued 170 foreign citizens before this incident.

We don't know when this incident happened. It's not about this single lady, the flight was packed with other Indians. If this lady was accommodated, one Indian national would have had to sit out. How would that have been fair?

Eventually yes but not when Indian nationals are waiting to be rescued.....

 

[Echo_419]

She expected VIP treatment by flaunting her British Passaport,The officials shoved it back at her and said Indians first.
I see what NDTV and Indian express #Presstitutes are doing ,reporting about a Dalit village in Nepal and picking up a single incident where a British citizen was denied to board flight and blowing it into a article.
They are trying to tarnish the good gained by the Aid and rescue started by PM Modi and somehow try to show it to the public the rescue was a disaster as they tried to paint Yemen in similar tone.

Read the dalit article on Indian express too
Srsly how low can these fuckers go

 

[Manindra]

We don't know when this incident happened. It's not about this single lady, the flight was packed with other Indians. If this lady was accommodated, one Indian national would have had to sit out. How would that have been fair?

Eventually yes but not when Indian nationals are waiting to be rescued.....

Good if 170 foreigners are not rescued before.

They create soft image so that they do not get discriminated in their adopted country for being an Indian or following Indian culture. Others like Bobby Jindall reject everything Indian and become more white than the whites. Either way they do us no favour.

Do you know what have to say in election ?
Any US citizen would give him a vote if say Hello Sir I am Indian American.

No we don't. Get your facts right.

Then you didn't care to read RBIs directives of PIOs investment policy.

 

[forcetrip]

You leave a country and expect to be treated like royalty is somehow understandable. Its a South Asian thing. It must have taken a bit of effort dumping a passport to earn and live in another country. I would say good decision even if it was a bit crass.

 

[tsinga]

NRI's are Indian citizens.
We should help out everyone but not at the cost of Indian citizens.

This lady was not an Indian citizen, and in case of capacity limitation, Indians would be given preference. That is quite logical.

I don't see the problem here. Priority will be given to Indians, now and always.

 

[salarsikander]

You may well be right on emotional grounds but this is a matter of legality. The government of India is spending Indian tax payers money on this rescue. The first obligation will have to be towards those who are by law Indian, not necessarily those who just claim a connection of the heart. It would have been very difficult to leave an Indian passport holder out & take this lady on board. She could only come in after Indian citizens have been evacuated.

Hi,

To all my Indian friends please dont think that the my sole reason for taking interest in this topic is to tarnish Indian image or anything for that matter, its just that i want to get the view on other side of border regarding overseas or non resident nationals.

You're right in your own context, but dont you think the situation could have been handled a lot better than being heavy handed on her.

The reason why I feel sorry for Non resident or overseas people, is that i too have been overseas for quite long time, in fact i ' m still.

at the immigration counter i could see how foreign passport holder receives VIp treatment, whereas a very close friend of mine in Europe complains how terrible it is to get Indian visa and get through the immigration counters. Bot of mentioned scenarios are nightmare, where at one end you receive elite class treatment on he other you're hated.

If it weren't for Non resident Indians than Mr. Modi would have never received such reception at Madison sq, So you see they're still Indian and they are happy to see their leader.

You can see the post#44

NRI's are Indian citizens.
We should help out everyone but not at the cost of Indian citizens.

This lady was not an Indian citizen, and in case of capacity limitation, Indians would be given preference. That is quite logical.

I don't see the problem here. Priority will be given to Indians, now and always.

Hi,
And what about the NRi who project soft image and lobby for India ? how would they feel ?

 

[Kaniska]

Of course..it is inhuman...but again...the priority is always should go to Indian passport holder....We have to understand than we are living in ideal world..Being an NRI too, i feel if India needs to choose any one between its own citizen and OCI, citizen should be preferred..And again, same thing will be done by the British Gov too....So do not hype up this incident too much....

Guys...just see the FB post of Padmini....I am not sure..where is the truth...She is saluting the air India personnel and compimenting them for their work in Nepal...

 

[manishmaithani]

Hi,

To all my Indian friends please dont think that the my sole reason for taking interest in this topic is to tarnish Indian image or anything for that matter, its just that i want to get the view on other side of border regarding overseas or non resident nationals.

You're right in your own context, but dont you think the situation could have been handled a lot better than being heavy handed on her.

The reason why I feel sorry for Non resident or overseas people, is that i too have been overseas for quite long time, in fact i ' m still.

at the immigration counter i could see how foreign passport holder receives VIp treatment, whereas a very close friend of mine in Europe complains how terrible it is to get Indian visa and get through the immigration counters. Bot of mentioned scenarios are nightmare, where at one end you receive elite class treatment on he other you're hated.

If it weren't for Non resident Indians than Mr. Modi would have never received such reception at Madison sq, So you see they're still Indian and they are happy to see their leader.

You can see the post#44


Hi,
And what about the NRi who project soft image and lobby for India ? how would they feel ?

What happened with the OCI lady is really embarrassing as Modi already said that an Indian who left his/her home, even 150 years back is still Indian and welcome to India always, but of course they will be always second to Indian citizen.
Well in Nepal scenario, situation is quite different where thousands of Indian already looking for evacuation hence our priority is Indian first and this happens in international diplomacy very casually, we are not different and no matter what passport or religion they are having and we cant give VIP treatment to all people as we are already 1.25 billions.

 

[nForce]

Hi,

To all my Indian friends please dont think that the my sole reason for taking interest in this topic is to tarnish Indian image or anything for that matter, its just that i want to get the view on other side of border regarding overseas or non resident nationals.

You're right in your own context, but dont you think the situation could have been handled a lot better than being heavy handed on her.

The reason why I feel sorry for Non resident or overseas people, is that i too have been overseas for quite long time, in fact i ' m still.

at the immigration counter i could see how foreign passport holder receives VIp treatment, whereas a very close friend of mine in Europe complains how terrible it is to get Indian visa and get through the immigration counters. Bot of mentioned scenarios are nightmare, where at one end you receive elite class treatment on he other you're hated.

If it weren't for Non resident Indians than Mr. Modi would have never received such reception at Madison sq, So you see they're still Indian and they are happy to see their leader.

You can see the post#44


Hi,
And what about the NRi who project soft image and lobby for India ? how would they feel ?

I think you are intermixing a lot of things together...

We have to be objective while taking decisions.

We cannot give anybody a preferential treatment because somebody else, having the similar background may had been helpful in some other context. That kind of policy means we are bending the law for anybody and everybody, whenever we like, results in chaos and ambiguity.
So, here is the thumb rule - a person holding an Indian passport is of utmost priority to India, all other come after that, irrespective of any kind of connection to India.

 

[salarsikander]

I think you are intermixing a lot of things together...

We have to be objective while taking decisions.

We cannot give anybody a preferential treatment because somebody else, having the similar background may had been helpful in some other context. That kind of policy means we are bending the law for anybody and everybody, whenever we like, results in chaos and ambiguity.
So, here is the thumb rule - a person holding an Indian passport is of utmost priority to India, all other come after that, irrespective of any kind of connection to India.

Hi,
So am i to understand that the work done by NRi is not appreciated India ? no one is asking to give them prefrential treatment, just treat them like local Indian

 

[moisrar47]

Hope she's safe..

 

[nForce]

Hi,
So am i to understand that the work done by NRi is not appreciated India ? no one is asking to give them prefrential treatment, just treat them like local Indian

The work done by them is well appreciated. There are multiple forums to address that.
Many events are organized by various states as well as the Center, trade & commerce entities like FICCI(Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry), CII(Confederation of Indian Industry) etc.
There are annual events organized to recognize the good work done by them. It also helps in creating more opportunities for development.
You may also want to check out this website.
All these things are done, in the right place, at right time.
However, all that being said, there is no exception to the rule of law, no jumping the queue or no preferential treatment, privileges cannot be extended to bend the rules.

If we start doing that, then there will be no end to it, utter chaos!

 

[anonymus]

You may well be right on emotional grounds but this is a matter of legality. The government of India is spending Indian tax payers money on this rescue. The first obligation will have to be towards those who are by law Indian, not necessarily those who just claim a connection of the heart. It would have been very difficult to leave an Indian passport holder out & take this lady on board. She could only come in after Indian citizens have been evacuated.

Apart from that, it is also question of common sense.

Kathmandu airport would start functioning in a couple of days. It is logical for GoI to evacuate Indian citizens who would go home once landing in India.

What is the point in evacuating a non-Indian? That person would spend nearly the same time in Indira Gandhi airport as he/she would have spent in Kathmandu airport to board a flight home. He/She would just be wasting boarding space on a C-130/C-17.

To whom, NRIs then we should not accept remittance from them.

LOL. Why ? We don't accept it, we don't reject it either.

Irrelevent point. NRI's are proper Indians. They are just living outside India atm, and the restriction like that on voting right is mainly due to logistics of arranging facilities for them to vote, rather than any moral issue.