Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 20: Strongly admonishing the State Government for being abominably callous towards the State martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the motherland, JKNPP chairman and former Minister Harsh Dev Singh today urged upon the Governor to settle all claims and dues of all families of bravehearts who made the supreme sacrifices for the nation and its flag.
He regretted that despite lapse of one year after the martyrdom of Sub Inspector Imran Tak of Basantgarh who laid down his life while fighting armed insurgency in Kashmir in November 2017, it was most deplorable that the State Govt had failed to fulfil its obligations towards the family of the braveheart. Not only were the dues of the valiant Soldier’s family unpaid till date but the SRO-43 case of the family had also been kept pending for the last one year leading to untold hardships for the family, he added. Likewise, he further said, there was non fulfilment of the announcement made by the top Civil and Police administration for conferment of ‘Shaurya Chakra’ Award on the braveheart Imran Tak posthumously.
Singh alleged that while the erstwhile PDP-BJP Government lavishly doled incentives and jobs to the surrendered militants, dependants of deceased anti nationals and subversives in the Valley, the NOKs of the slain soldiers received the most contemptuous and abominable treatment at the hands of the rulers. He rued that it was sheer irony that the traitors were enjoying all luxuries in Kashmir but the tall pronouncements of Union Home Minister Raj Nath Singh to provide ex-gratia worth rupees one crore to the NOKs of martyrs failed to turn into reality in J&K. He further called for immediate honouring the assurance given by the Govt at the relevant point of time for gallantry award in favour of the martyred soldier Imran Tak. He further called for immediate settlement of SRO-43 case of Muzzaffar Tak, the brother of Imran Tak whose file was made to shuttle from one office to the other during the past one year causing huge embarrassment and humiliation to the bereaved family.
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