NRIs flock to Kerala ahead of Lok Sabha polls to cast vote
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Thiruvananthapuram: More than 10,000 expatriates from Kerala working across the Gulf region have flown to their homeland in the last few days, to exercise their voting rights in the Lok Sabha election scheduled for April 26.
According to Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader Abdurhiman Randathani, the party’s expatriate charity and volunteer organisation for Muslims, KMCC, have been working hard, ever since the elections were announced, to motivate the Malayalees working in Arab countries to travel to Kerala and exercise their franchise.
The Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (KMCC) has a wide network in the Arab nations, he added.
With the help of the KMCC, the expatriates negotiated with airlines for low cost fares and chartered flights to come to Kerala in large numbers, he said.
“Over 10,000 Keralites have already arrived in the state in the past two weeks. More are expected to arrive on April 25,” Randathani told PTI.
“However, there is nothing new about it. This happened during the last Lok Sabha polls also,” he added.
(Input from PTI)