Express News Service
CHENNAI: Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s pre-poll gesture to drop cases against people who were involved in the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests may have come as a relief to the minority community, but for most of them, pandemic-driven unemployment will still be the burning issue in this year’s Assembly elections.
As many of them wait patiently for the court procedure to takes its course, they feel that though the CAA movement had coagulated their opinions, they are more concerned about how the new government will focus on offering a favourable climate for employment.
Echoing their opinion, an Arabic professor, KMA Ahmed Zubair, said due to lack of opportunities here, middle-aged persons and youngsters migrated to countries in West Asia to take up unskilled and semi-skilled jobs, while a section of Muslims from Ilayangudi (Sivaganga), Kayilpattinam (Thoothukudi), and Keelakari (Ramanathapuram) went to work in road-side eateries in Ma