Overview
- The workers landed in Hyderabad on Saturday, met T. Harish Rao, and thanked him after describing days without adequate food and exploitation in Jordan.
- Rao said his team alerted both State and Central authorities and that the workers had earlier approached the Indian Embassy and local leaders without success.
- According to Rao, authorities allowed the group to depart Jordan only after penalties were paid, and he also bore the return airfare for all 12.
- After the meeting, special vehicles transported the workers to their villages in Jagtial, Nirmal, Kamareddy, Nizamabad, and Siddipet districts.
- Rao credited K. Chandrashekhar Rao for directing the effort and criticized the government over unmet pledges such as a migrant welfare board, citing widespread deception by agents.