The widow of martyred Indian soldier Hemraj,has demanded that the Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaj Sharif, who is coming to India on Monday to attend the sweaing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi, should either bring back her husband’s head or condemn the barbaric killing.
“Sharif should either bring the head of my husband or should publicly condemn the barbarous act of Pakistani soldiers who had beheaded my husband,” Dharmvati, the widow of Hemraj in a statement in Mathura on Sunday. Dharmavati is also planning to go on fast to protest Sharif’s presence in the country.
‘I would go on fast from May 26 and continue till Sharif will be in India. If he does not regret the act of his soldiers, it would be deemed that he has not changed,’ she said
lance Naik Hemraj was killed and beheaded by Pakistani soldiers on January 8 last year in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir. “In fact Modi should not have invited Sharif.I had voted for BJP since Modi in his election speech in Mathura, not only condemned the inaction of Manmohan government in the matter but had even challenged Pakistan then,” she said, adding the BJP government’s invite to Sharif is an “insult” to the sacrifice of a soldier.
Asking why India has not taken revenge for the act so far, she claimed, “Gen V K Singh had then even promised to take revenge”.Meanwhile, Senior Congress leader and former Maharastra Home Minister Kripa Shanker Singh said that the new BJP government at the Centre has started showing its double character by inviting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaj Sharif for the oath ceremony.
“The party always accused the Congress for not taking any action against Pak for beheading Indian soldiers Sudkhar and Hemraj, but now they themselves are trying to appease them,” he said.
He told Pioneer from Jaunpur Singh said it would have been better if the family members of the martyrs of Mumbai attack were also invited in the swearing in ceremony.
“It would have been better if the family members of Hemant Karkre,Vijay Salaskar, Ashok Tukaram and others were invited for the oath ceremony along the family members of Sudhakar and Hemraj,” he said.