PATNA, Sept 20:
“Anti-Pakistan” slogans rented the air when bodies of three jawans martyred in the Fidyaeen attack on the Uri Army base today reached their villages in Bihar for their final journey.
When the bodies wrapped in Tricolour reached their native villages in Gaya, Kaimur and Bhojpur districts, villagers joined the nation in the chorus for the toughest possible action against Pakistan for its dastardly attack on the Army base.
While the body of Naik Sunil Kumar Vidyarthi reached Boknari village in Gaya district, those of Sepoy Rakesh Singh and Havildar Ashok Kumar were brought to their respective villages in Kaimur and Bhojpur districts respectively.
A Gaya report said that people at Boknari village started raising slogans, “Shaheed Sunil Amar Rahe, Pakistan Murdabad..”, as a mood of grief and anger enveloped the entire atmosphere. Later, the body was brought to the cremation ground in Gaya for the last rites.
Vidyathi’s body was flown by a special aircraft from Ranchi to Gaya Airport where Army officers gave him guard of honour on arrival of his body.
Gaya Officers Training Academy Major General Vinod Vashishtha, Public Health Engineering Minister Krishna Nandan Verma as a representative of the State Government, District Magistrate Kumar Ravi, Senior Police Superintendent Garima Mallik and other senior civil and police authorities were present on the occasion.
According to a report from Bhabhua, the body of slain Army jawan was brought to his native village Badda village in Kaimur district by road after the body reached at Babatpur airport in Varanasi from Jammu and Kashmir.
State Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Minister Santosh Kumar Nirala as a representative of the State Government, local MLA Ashok Kumar Singh, former MP Jagatanand Singh. District Magistrate Rajeshwar Prasad Singh, Police Superintendent Harpreet Kaur and a host of military officials were present on the occasion.
He was given guard of honour on the occasion. A large number of people from the village and adjoining areas assembled and started raising anti-Pakistan slogans by holding the country responsible for terrorists’ acts. A report said the body of slain Army Havildar Ashok Kuamr reached his native village Lattu Tola in Bhojpur district by road from Varanasi Airport where his body arrived yesterday.
Industry Minister Jai Kumar Singh as a representative of the State Government, district magistrate, police superintendent and military officers were present on the occasion. People raised anti-Pakistan slogans and recalled the supreme sacrifice of the Army havildar with a sense of pride on the occasion.
Meanwhile, the mortal remains of Army jawan Sandip Somnath Thok were consigned to flames at his native place here.
His body was brought yesterday to Ojhar Airport in Nashik district in an IAF plane from Srinagar and then taken to his native Khadangli village last night.
A procession was also taken out in the village as state Rural Development Minister Dadaji Bhuse, District Collector Radhakrishnan B, Sub-Divisional Officer Mahesh Patil, Tehsildar Manoj Khairnar and others paid rich tributes to the martyr.
The jawan was bid farewell amid chants of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and ‘Sandeep Thok Amar Rahein’ by grief-stricken villagers as his mortal remains were cremated late last night with full military honours.
Meanwhile, a report from Pune said that Indian Army soldier Chandrakant Shankar Galande, was cremated with full military honours at his native place Jashi village in Satara district of western Maharashtra today. Thousands of locals and villagers from surrounding villages paid their respects to the martyr.
Later, a cortege covered in tricolor was taken out in a solemn procession through Jashi village amid cries of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, ‘Shahid Chandrakant Galande Amar Rahe’.
Top civil and military officials, three ministers — Mahadev Jankar, Girish Bapat and Vijay Shivtare — as well as local leaders and commoners laid wreaths and paid homage to the gallant soldier.
The village was in mourning since the news of his death broke on Sunday. Chandrakant is survived by his wife Nisha, two sons — Shreyas, (5) and Jai (10 months) besides his aged farmer parents and two older brothers, who are also in the armed forces.
Chandrakant, who joined the Army in 2012, had called his wife to inform that he would be coming home on a 10-day holiday to help with the farm work. But the very next day, the family heard the news of the tragedy.
“It was my desire that all three sons join the armed forces.They respected my wish. Today, the youngest has been martyred. I am proud that his life is sacrificed for the cause of the nation,” a teary-eyed Shankar Galande told mediapersons at his village. (UNI)
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