Abducted men's wives meet West Bengal CM

NADIA: The wives of two workers from Nadia, who were allegedly kidnapped by ISIS militants in June 2014 from Iraq's Mosul, met Mamata Banerjee at her residence on Monday.
Namita Sikdar and Dipali Tikadar have not heard from their husbands since June 2014 when they received frantic phone calls from them from Mosul saying they were abducted by ISIS. Sikdar said, “With the help of the Nadia district magistrate, we could meet the CM at her home.It was a few minutes of interaction but the CM instructed her office-bearers to hear out our pleas. That they did. We only hope and pray that the state helps us out.“ The hapless women had earlier made a plea to the external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj -with help of BJP MLA Shamik Bhattacharya but nothing has moved since then. “The Centre helped people trapped in Iraq before. Nurses from Kerala were expatriated. Why wouldn't they push for our cases?“ she said.
On one hand, Namita alleged the company that hired her husband did not take any step to negotiate his release with the ISIS.
But on the other, Dipali wife of the other missing construction worker, Samar Tikadar, said, “He assured me he would be safe as his firm had shifted him to a safer place.“