Returned from Sudan Mr. Raja Rajesh with his family members.
“It is a rebirth for me. I have had sleepless nights, and only after great difficulties have I returned to my hometown. The state and central governments helped me a lot to come back, and I request the authorities to repatriate the remaining Indians Request to make arrangements,” said K Sri Raja Rajesh, who returned home from war-torn Sudan on Monday.
Working as a supervisor in a ceramics firm in Sudan, Mr. Rajesh returned home on a flight from Sudan to Delhi as part of Operation Cauvery, along with his colleague Balla Jagdish.
“I was in constant fear till the plane took off for Delhi,” he said.
“My family hugged me and we were in tears. We are celebrating my safe return and I am meeting all my relatives and friends,” said Mr. Rajesh, who hails from Narasapuram in West Godavari district.
“I was in Sudan for the last seven years. I was working for Al Madina Ceramics. Six more Telugu people, including five from East Godavari and one from Visakhapatnam, were working in our company,” said Mr. Rajesh, who broke down on seeing his wife Roja Lakshmi and their children.
talking to Hindu On Tuesday, Mr Rajesh said the situation in Sudan continued to be chaotic and people from different countries who had come there for work were walking out in panic.
Scores of people from Japan, China, Russia, the United States, India and other countries were working in various firms and living in Khartoum, Bahri Khartoum and Atbara in north-eastern Sudan and other places.
“We were worried after seeing the news of the civil war in Sudan on television. I am happy that my son has returned home safely,” Mr. Rajesh’s mother K. Nagmani said.
“My plant was located near Reserve Special Force (RSF) and Army base camps. We used to hear bomb blasts everyday and felt tremors at our workplace. All the employees lived in constant fear of possible fire accident as the refinery and LPG tanker were located close to our ceramic company,” he said.
In the past few days, the airport and many other companies were bombed and millions of people returned to their countries.
“Some Gujarati families, who had settled in Sudan decades ago, are now returning to India with me. I thank the state and central governments, AP Bhavan officials, West Godavari collector P. Prasanthi and Narasapuram officials who helped me return home,” Mr. Rajesh said.
Bharat, the manager of our company, and Ravi, another employee, are on their way home to India, Mr. Rajesh said, adding that many Indians are still stranded in the war-torn country where the situation is worsening by the day.