Uttar Pradesh mourns the demise of the 2 military personnel who had been killed in motion whereas combating with terrorists in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on November 22. On Friday, the mortal stays of each personnel– Captain Shubham Gupta and Paratrooper Sachin Laur– had been delivered to their hometowns in the Agra and Aligarh districts respectively.
The two had been amongst 5 safety personnel who laid their lives in a 36-long-hours-long gunfight with terrorists in Rajouri district. The different three who had been killed in the gunfight are –Captain MV Pranjal (63RR), a resident of Karnataka’s Mangalore, Havaldar Abdul Majid (Para) of Ajote in J&Ok’s Poonch, and Lance Naik Sanjay Bist of Halli Padli space in Uttarakhand’s Nainital.
Pall of Gloom Descends Upon Nagariya Gorla
Heaviness hung in the air in Nagariya Gorla Village below Tappal Police Station of Aligarh, because the mortal stays of Paratrooper Sachin Laur had been delivered to his dwelling for final rites. Laur was scheduled to get married on December 8, and most preparations had been in place for the special day.
“My grief and pain is hard to be defined in words. I lost my young son just 15 days before his marriage. I have nothing to say except the fact that I am a proud father,” stated Ramesh Chandra, Sachin’s father who’s a farmer by career.
Laur’s mom, who has misplaced her senses ever since she got here to know in regards to the demise of her son, has stopped speaking.
According to his members of the family, Laur joined Army on March 20, 2019 and was posted as a paratrooper.
“Sachin was sincere since childhood. He had an only aim to become an army officer and perhaps this was the reason why he was selected. I remember the last words of my son who told us that two more terrorists are left, and will leave for home immediately once the operation is over and the remaining two terrorists are neutralized,” his father stated.
In the presence of his members of the family and an enormous crowd of villagers, the physique of Sachin Laur was cremated on Friday.
Agra Mourns Captain Shubham’s Demise
As mortal stays of Captain Shubham Gupta had been delivered to his hometown, folks, regardless of caste, faith and age thonged at his dwelling in Phase 2 of Agra’s Prateek Enclave, to pay final tribute to their hero.
“My son has made me proud. He was always eager to do something big for the country and did so while sacrificing his life for his uniform,” stated Basant Gupta, Shubham’s father whereas paying tributes to his son.
Born and introduced up in Agra, his associates stated Shubham was very keen on military uniform.
“His inclination towards defence forces was much visibles since his school days when he often used to dress like an army personnel at the fancy dress competitions,” one in every of Shubham’s associates stated.
Son of a authorities lawyer, Captain Gupta joined the Army in 2015 and received commissioned into the ninth battalion of the Army’s elite Parachute regiment, extra popularly often called the 9 Para SF (Special Forces) in 2018.
‘Pradharshani Mat Lagao’
While folks had been busy paying tributes to the martyr, Shubham’s inconsolable mom was remembering the final video name along with her son on Diwali when he promised to be dwelling inside every week.
But future ordained in any other case. Amidst the chants of ‘Shubham Amar Rahe’, ‘Jab Tak Suraj Chand Rahega, Shubham Tera Naam Rahega’, the funeral procession was carried out to his village Kuan Khera the place his mortal stays had been consigned to flames.
UP Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has introduced an ex-gratia of Rs 50 lakh for the household, a authorities job to a member of the household and to call a highway in the district after martyr.
Amid all of the grief, a video went viral on Friday in which Shubham’s inconsolable mom might be seen asking Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Yogendra Upadhyay and BJP MLA GS Dharmesh, who had been posing with a cheque for the bereaved household, to cease the exhibition.
“Ye pradarshani mat agao bhai,” the bereaved mom was heard telling Upadhyay, a cupboard minister in the Yogi Government.
The Opposition slammed the BJP-led authorities for insensitive act. ‘Vultures’, the Congress posted on ‘X’ together with the video.
Leader of Uddhav Thackeray’s faction of Shiv Sena, Priyanka Chaturvedi known as the act ‘heartless’ and stated that ‘the mother is pleading, yet the minister continues with his photon opportunity. What shameless is this?’.
The Aam Admi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha in his publish on ‘X’ wrote, “The B in BJP should stand for Besharm and P for Publicity. Captain Shubham Gupta made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty during an encounter in the Rajouri sector. His mother is grieving and eagerly awaiting her son’s mortal remains. In the midst of her inconsolable sorrow, UP government’s BJP Minister Yogendra Upadhyay shamelessly persists on having a photograph taken for his PR – this, despite the mother’s plea to refrain from turning her grief into a spectacle. Shame’.”
