This video is posted by a twitter user Rahul Singh, whose uncle Ashok Yadav is one of the appellants.
Ashok Yadav, as per Rahul's claim, wants to go back to India but is not allowed to do so.
Rahul writes, "they are not letting my uncle come back to India."
In the video itself, persons sitting on a floor can be seen requesting India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to help them. A person, speaking in Punjabi, says in the video, "People are not working for seven months to four years. Our permits have expired, so we are living illegally. We want to come home. We have no money, no food. Please help us."
These indians are traped in saudi Arabia from 1 yr ,No one is helping them out to reach India, plz retweet for help, I request you all plz pic.twitter.com/tNZHxKUtzI — Rahul Singh (@Choudhary_vines) March 19, 2018
Apparently, these workers are having problems with their employers. They claim to have filed a case in the labour court too. We have tried to reach the company named in the video, but no response has been received yet.
This is not the first time the plight of Indians working in Gulf countries has surfaced. According to many reports, Indian migrants constitute the largest workforce in the Gulf nations.
Many of them often complain of ill-treatment, by their employers. Since 2014, over 5000 bodies have returned to India from Gulf Countries. Only in 2015, as many as 5875 Indian workers died in Gulf countries, according to Government of India figures.
In August 2016, thousands of Indian workers had gone without food for weeks, after being laid by some companies, following the drop in oil prices.
Sushma Swaraj, who is famous for helping people reaching her through Twitter, had not responded to this appeal when this story was filed.
