Loka kerala sabha a General Assembly of the Malayali diaspora: Closing Ceremony

Kerala government’s ambitious bid to harness the creative and entrepreneurial prowess of expatriate Malayalis has reached fruition in the Loka Kerala Sabha, a general assembly of the Malayali diaspora. A run through the key takeaways from the deliberations at the sabha

The story of every migrant starts with a tearful farewell to their loved ones. With apprehension and hope, hundreds of thousands of Keralites have left their State’s sylvan shores to keep the hearths warm back home.

Kerala’s history of migration to far-flung lands is replete with tales of sorrow, success, parting and resurgence. Their saga appeared to have found stable expression at the inaugural session of the Kerala Loka Sabha that concluded here on Saturday.

As many as 177 expatriates representing different regions of the world assembled alongside legislators and parliamentarians to highlight their issues and deliberate how their experience could benefit Kerala’s development.

Social differences appeared temporarily erased as business leaders, unskilled workers, highly skilled professionals, lawmakers, bureaucrats and academics huddled together for two days to create a broad framework to build what Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the leader of the Sabha, described as a “new Kerala