Lucknow: Family members of Sepoy Sudhesh Kumar, who was killed in firing by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir last year, went on an indefinite fast on Friday, demanding that the chief minister Yogi Adityanath should visit them.
Villagers and family members of Mr Kumar, who laid down his life on October 16 2016, sat on a fast in Pansukha Milak village in Sambhal district, claiming that despite promises by BJP leaders, none of them had bothered to visit the family.
“We were promised sanction for a petrol pump, construction of a road and memorial in the name of my brother and renaming a village primary school in his name by the BJP leaders, but none of the promises have been met,” said Mr Manoj Kumar, brother of martyr Sudesh Kumar.
The martyr’s younger brother, Mr Anil Kumar, said that they had lost faith in local leaders and that was why they were demanding that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should visit them.
Sudesh’s widow Kavita, mother Santosh Kumari, father Brahmpal Singh, Anil Kumar, and a number of villagers were on an indefinite fast.
The family had earlier refused to perform the last rites till the then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav visited them.
Sudesh, who was from Sambhal district, was killed when Pakistani Army fired on Indian Army posts along the Line of Control in Rajouri district.
