Martyr’s kin rejects offer of appointment with CM

SAMBHAL: Family members of Sepoy Sudesh Kumar, who was killed last year in firing by Pakistani troops along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday rejected the administration’s offer to fix an appointment with the chief minister Yogi Adityanath during his Moradabad visit on Sunday.

The family members, on Friday, sat on an indefinite fast, demanding the CM to pay a visit to their Pansukha Milak village.

Stating that the condition of Kavita, the widow of Sudesh Kumar was not good, Manoj, brother of the killed sepoy, said district unit presidents of the BJP and the SP, Rajesh Singhal and Firoz Khan respectively, also met the family. “Senior officials, including the SP, the ADM, the SDM and the CO met us with the offer of fixing an appointment with the CM during his Moradabad visit but we are firm that we will not end our indefinite fast till he visits our village,” Manoj said.

ADM RP Yadav confirmed that the family was urged to end the fast and told that a meeting of two of them can be fixed with the CM during his visit to Moradabad on Sunday but they have turned it down. Officials have been directed to arrange for a team of doctors to check the medical condition of the family members on fast and deploy an ambulance in the village, the ADM said.

The sepoy’s mother Santosh Kumari had said if the CM did not visit them, she will commit suicide. Sudesh’s brother Manoj said, “We were promised a petrol pump, construction of a road and a memorial in the village and renaming a village primary school in Sudesh’s name by the BJP leaders, but none of the promises was fulfilled.”