Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 2: Admonis-hing the lackadaisical attitude of the Central and State BJP led Governments towards the Indians killed in the Pakistan jails, provincial president of NPP Rajesh Padgotra along with the families of the victims lambasted the Saffron Party for playing with the sentiments of the people only for the electoral gains.
Addressing a joint press conference here today, Mr Padgotra and family members of victims revealed that on May 11, 2014, Sohan Lal Choudhary, son of Garu Ram Choudhary, a resident of Gulabgarh near Suchetgarh who was mentally unstable inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan while working in the fields. They further disclosed that the villager was taken into custody by the Pakistani rangers whose whereabouts were still unknown. They lambasted the BJP Govt for grossly failing to negotiate with the Government of Pakistan to facilitate his return.
Mr Padgotra said that many Indians like Sohan Lal who had been languishing in Pak jails whose families were running from pillar to post with all efforts in vain. Expressing his resentment over the Central and State Governments for not taking the case of Chamail Singh seriously, Mr Padgotra recalled that the convicted Indian who was a resident of village Pargwal in Akhnoor was brutally murdered in Kot Lakhpat jail in Pakistan and his family was still struggling for justice.
The NPP leader maintained that recently Kripal Singh, a resident of Amritsar was also brutally murdered in Pakistan jail whose vital organs were also taken out from his body. He said that Punjab Government had accorded him the status of a martyr and provided compensation of Rs 25 lakhs to his family. While citing the example of Sarabjeet Singh who was also killed in Pakistan whose family was compensated with Rs 1 crore 25 lakhs by Punjab Government, Mr Padgotra lamented that BJP led Governments in the Centre and the State had failed to accord the status of a martyr to Chamail Singh and paid no heed to pay a single penny to the family of the deceased so far.
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