Survival of Democracy from Gandhi’s Principles: Indian Social Forum

October 1, 2015

Dammam : The celebration of Gandhi’s birthday on 2nd of October should not be a mere symbolic program. Indian Social Forum called upon Indian community to recall Gandhi’s principles in order to strengthen the Indian Democracy, said in its press release.

gandhi ISF stated in its press release that, Mahathma Gandhi was a proponent of secular values who has dreamed of a comprehensive welfare state. His assassination was the part of removing the secular values by the traitors. We should always remember the Gandhi’s principles and also we should learn the background of his murderers. It is the tragedy of India that the act of terrorism which began with the assassination of Gandhi is still continued. The demand from the fascist forces to build the statue of Ghodse who is the assassin of Gandhi is the biggest threat to sovereignty of the country. Indian Social Forum opined that Indian community should really fight against these traitors and by this way we can really celebrate Gandhi’s birthday.

The empowerment proposal by Gandhi included the development of farmers, villages, minorities, dalits and poor people of India. But today development projects implemented in favor of capitalists and corporate companies who are clearly against Gandhi’s empowerment theme. Even the foreign policy of the country also amended against Gandhi’s principles. In this situation Indian Social forum urged in a press release that we must give respect to Mahathma Gandhi by repeating Gandhi’s struggle to save our country’s democratic system.

Indian Social Forum

Karnataka State, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

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AIE plane crash: Two NRIs in UAE thank God for missing flight at last moment

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August 8,2020

Dubai, Aug 7: One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board.

According to India's Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to Kozhikode overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday evening. There were 184 passengers including 10 infants, 2 pilots and four cabin crew onboard the aircraft.

Noufal Moin Vetten, an Ajman resident working as an office boy in a Sharjah school, was booked to travel on the flight and had checked in as per schedule.

Recounting his miraculous escape, Vetten, a resident of Malappuram, Thirunavaya, whose visa was cancelled a week ago, told Gulf News: “I was handed my boarding pass, but when I reached immigration, they told me I had to pay a fine of Dh 1,000 (Rs 20,430) for overstay. I had only Dh 500 (Rs10,215) with me.

"I called my school PRO and he told me to come back. He said they would follow protocols and pay the fines before sending me,“ he said.

Vetten was disappointed and called his family to let them know.

“When I heard about the crash, I was saddened for all the passengers. But I'm so relieved I missed it. God has been really merciful,” said Vetten.

Afsal Parrakodan, a resident of Abu Dhabi, had a similar stroke of luck.

“My work visa was cancelled about a week ago. After getting my boarding pass, I was told I had to pay a fine of Dh1,000 at the immigration counter, but I had only Dh500 on me.”

“I was very keen to board the flight and be with my family. So I called a friend who brought me the additional Dh500, but by then, my baggage had been offloaded and the flight's doors were closed,” said Parrakodan.

“I was feeling very sad and called my mother to tell her I had missed the flight. But a few hours later, when I learnt of the crash, I couldn’t help but feel relieved and thankful to God for saving my life,“ said an overwhelmed Parrakodan who plans to fly back next week.

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