Click to play videoNew Delhi: As the seven-day deadline to pay ransom for the sailors held captive off the Somalian Coast comes closer, time is running out for their families back in India. Even as they met the people who could do some thing to help.
Captive Sailor's wife Shampa Singh said, "There are assurance, sympathy but leads to nothing."
That's how Shampa Singh felt after meeting the shipping minister GK Vasan. Shampa's husband Ravinder Singh and six other Indian sailors have been held hostage on the MV SUEZ by Somali pirates since August last year.
Vasan said, "We are making sure all the steps to ensuring the safety of th eIndian crew. And also to expedite the release."
But for the families who spent all of Thursday running from one ministry to another, these words sounded hollow.
Capitve Sailor's brother Kushal said, "What we got till now was the assurance but no action has been taken."
Although there has been no concrete solution so far these families whose men are still being held hostage by Somali pirates are holding on to this bureaucratic assurance like a lifeline.
In a letter, the owner of the red sea corproration. Clearly says that he won't pay the ransom and will do nothing to save the sailors. But the overseas minister sounded rather positive
Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vyalar Ravi said, "I will take personal interest in ensuring their safe passage back."
But at the same time, authorities say, its not so simple to get the sailors back home.
Even as the clock ticks faster, these families have no choice but to hold on in hope that their men will return home soon - safe and alive.
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