Leaders throng martyr's village in Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad, April 5
Leaders from various political parties thronged the house of Sanjiv Kumar here who was among three soldiers of Rajput Regiment killed in a militant ambush in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh last Thursday.

Prominent among the visitors at Dhindar village in this district were Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh, union Minister of State for Agriculture Sanjiv Balyan and Bharatiya Janta Party state president L.K. Vajpayee.

Janta Dal (United) general Secretary K.C. Tyagi, condoling the martyr's family in the village, said the family suffered a double setback as its member Sanjiv Kumar, 40, was killed in an ambush and the family's crop was ruined in the recent hail storm.

The family, however, complained that no minister from Uttar Pradesh government bothered to visit them and condole their son's sacrifice for the country.

"No minister came to meet us from the Uttar Pradesh government. Of course, the district magistrate and the senior superintendent of police were present at the funeral as a protocol," Jagpal Singh, the martyr's father, said.