Anger soars in UP martyr’s village
BSF head constable Prem Sagar’s daughter wants Prime Minister to direct army to bring heads of 50 Pak soldiers
It is time to rethink India’s stand on Pakistan. The country and this village wants the government to teach Pakistan a lesson
The family members of slain Border Security Force (BSF) head constable Prem Sagar, 50, on Tuesday demanded that India give Pakistan a befitting reply for killing and mutilating the bodies of the jawan and Naib Subedar Paramjeet Singh.
Prem Sagar is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters. At Deoria’s Tikampur, the village of the slain BSF man, his elder daughter Saroj said, “I want Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct our soldiers to bring 50 heads of Pakistani personnel in lieu of the sacrifice made by my father.”
“The PM should ask the army to cross the LoC and retaliate,” said Daya Shankar, Prem LAL MOHAMMAD, friend of martyr Prem Sagar Sagar’s younger brother, who is an army jawan posted in Chhattisgarh (15th battalion). “I also demand that the PM bear the expenses of Prem Sagar’s children — Monika, 16, Ishwar Chand, a postgraduate student, and Ranvijay, 12,” he said.
Prem Sagar’s wife Gyanti, who last spoke to her husband just two hours before the incident, was inconsolable.
Village head Lal Mohammad, a friend of Prem Sagar, said: “It is time to rethink India’s stand on Pakistan. The country and this village wants the government to teach Pakistan a lesson.”
He said the villagers wanted chief minister Yogi Adityanath to visit the braveheart’s village to console the bereaved family. “Barring a few administrative and police officials, no big leader or minister has visited the martyr’s family. All we are hearing is that ministers Surya Pratap Shahi and Jai Prakash Nishad will arrive here,” he added.
Subdivisional magistrate RK Yadav said all arrangements had been made to conduct the cremation with full state honours.