‘Will Take His Full Accountability’: Pahalgam Sufferer’s Son In Arms, Suvendu Adhikari Makes A Promise – News18
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The BJP chief assured Bitan’s spouse Sohini that they’d avenge his killing, emphasising that the deaths of the vacationers had been spiritual and never political
Suvendu Adhikari with Bitan’s three-and-a-half-year-old son in his arms. (News18)
Feelings ran excessive on the Kolkata airport on Wednesday night because the our bodies of Bitan Adhikary and Samir Guha, who had been killed within the Pahalgam terror assault, arrived within the metropolis. Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, together with a number of BJP leaders and TMC ministers, was current on the airport to pay his respects.
As a grief-stricken Sohini Adhikary, Bitan’s spouse, broke down upon seeing Suvendu Adhikari, he took Bitan’s three-and-a-half-year-old son into his arms and reassured her, saying: “Don’t fear, sister. I’ll take his full duty. They killed Bitan as a result of he was a Hindu. We’re Modi’s sons. Identical to Gaza was completed, we too will give a becoming reply.”
The younger boy, who had witnessed the brutal killing of his father, had fallen asleep in Adhikari’s arms, unaware of the grief surrounding him.
Recounting the Pahalgam horror, Sohini mentioned: “They requested us, ‘Are you Muslims? Are you able to recite the Kalma?’ After which… they killed him. My little one retains saying, ‘Fireplace… fireplace… Mummy, Papa gone.’ His father was murdered proper earlier than his eyes.”
She added, “I’ve nobody left. My husband was all the pieces to me. He believed within the BJP and supported it wholeheartedly.”
Suvendu Adhikari emphasised that the killing was not political however spiritual in nature. He assured Sohini that he would go to their house on Thursday and stay by their aspect. “This isn’t nearly politics—it’s about faith,” he mentioned.
Bitan’s mother and father Bureshwar and Maya, who had as soon as fled Bangladesh attributable to spiritual persecution, are devastated. “We left our homeland as a result of we had been Hindus. We by no means imagined our son would meet the identical destiny right here,” they mentioned in disbelief.
Bitan was among the many 26 individuals—largely vacationers—who had been shot useless by terrorists in Pahalgam. Three terrorists who carried out a barbaric assault have been recognized, with businesses saying the group had been energetic within the space for the final one month.
The Resistance Entrance (TRF), an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) co-founded by Hafiz Saeed, has claimed duty for the assault. The TRF got here into existence in 2019 as a proxy outfit of LeT within the aftermath of the abrogation of Article 370 and revocation of particular standing to J&Ok in August that 12 months.
