NRI Corner 3

[Capt M Kumar]

“So far, the draft of the bill in the Rajya Sabha says that you will have to come back to India to cast your vote. Unless that draft is changed, it won’t be a real gift for the pravasis,” Tharoor said.



He indicated that it was too early to celebrate because most NRIs would not be able to travel back to the country to vote.



Even as he congratulated the government for piloting the bill, Tharoor said in a lighter vein that he had mooted the same idea far before the Prime Minister.



“In the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2003, I had proposed this as a pravasi and had been unanimously shouted down,” he said.



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