Shaheed Gunner Uddhab Das
'I will not
cry for my martyred son'
Anchali,
June 28 (Darshan Balwally) - INDIAN ARMY gunner
and Assam’s hero Uddhab Das was laid to rest with
a 21-gun salute, a part of the full military honours,
at his native Anchali village in Barpeta
district.
The only ambition of Uddhab
Das, 21, was to serve in the Indian Army. He was
martyred recently on the Tiger Hill in the Kargil
sector while trying to position an artillery
gun.
He fell amid a hail of
bullets fired by Pakistani Army personnel. Mrs
Khageswari Devi, Udhab’s mother, refused to shed
tears. “I am proud my son laid down his life for
his country”, she said. His stoic father, Mr
Bandhuram Das, however, silently broke down on
hearing her brave words.
Chief Minister Prafulla
Kumar Mahanta, who participated in the cremation,
seized the opportunity to lambast the insurgent
group, the ULFA, for assisting the enemy country’s
Inter-Services Intelligence services (ISI).
The insurgent group is
allegedly passing information about troop movements
and other defence-related details to Pakistan to
enable it to destabilise the north-eastern
region.
The mood at Anchali village
was tense as the mortal remains of Das were brought
from the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International
Airport by an Indian Airlines flight at noon
yesterday.
Almost the entire village
broke into tears as the casket was brought to the
martyr’s house for religious rituals.
Courtesy: THE
HINDUSTAN TIMES
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