Allowances were reduced, overtime payments were not paid and to add injury to insult, part of their meager salary have been taken away even without their proper consent.
I am no longer an overseas foreign worker and their plight is similar to the government servants.
Their privileges have been drastically reduced and now they want to come back to their own country because most have lost their jobs due to Covid outbreak but the authorities are not allowing them to return instead they are being ridiculed as undesirables with no value to the country.
How many have died over there due to Covid and taking one’s own life due to financial worries due to lose of work are everyone’s guess.
Sure enough, they have no voice and or voting rights while staying over there but what about their loved ones still in this country.
How their relatives and loved ones have expressed their displeasure of the way the debacle was tackled is surprising to say the least.
I have never been a grower but how the farmers had to suffer without having fertilizer to use is a public secret.
They were willing to pay and not wanted it Free as promised but yet even with money, it was not available.
Despite all that, their respond at the poll was disappointing.
Because of strict import controls, soon many small and medium scale industries will be closed and many with no income.
I am sure they too have not realized the looming disaster.
Same goes with senior citizens too.
After serving the country for at least three to four decades and hoping to live the rest of the life peacefully by their meager savings in banks too were brutally shattered with drastic reduction of bank deposit rates across the board.
But looking at the emerging general election results I doubt that anyone of those categories have responded accordingly.
If they have missed a golden opportunity for them to be heard themselves, so be it.
Stop crying tomorrow is my only advise to all of them.
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