In the words of participants of NRI absentee voting rights drive

• Mr. Atanu Dey,a vivid blogger on economics and development subjects, expressed that giving absentee votingrights is not in the best interest of some politicians and warned the need for standing up to the cause.
•  Mr. Mukund, who volunteers for Manavata, a non-profit organization, explained about his work for health related projects and questioned the lack of awareness about India among NRIs.  
• Mrs. Anita, bay area columnist, told that she kept her Indian citizenship by choice, as that is one of the dearest things to her heart. She told that she is willing to spend 5$ postal expenses in place of 1000$ flight ticket for casting her vote as that gives her right to vote with no additional expenses to the Government.
• Sreekanth Kocharlakota. People For Loksatta volunteer, told that he was pleasantly surprised at the awareness of Karntaka MPs of the NRI voting rights bill. One such pleasant experience was with a senior B.J.P leader Mr. Janardhana Samy. Janardhana Samy, who represents Chitradurga from Karnataka was an NRI and worked in several software companies like Cisco before moving back to India.
• Kalyan Raman, Sanjose Business specialist, told that if Afghanistan provides absentee voting rights, why can not India provide absentee voting rights.