Uri Attack: Why was my son sent to the front instead of seniors, asks father of martyred jawan

A day after the terrorist attack at Uri, Kashmir, the father of Sepoy G. Dalai rued that his son was sent to the front instead of his seniors. 

“Why was my son allowed to go the front when he was a junior sepoy. His seniors are supposed to go the front,” Onkar Nath Dalai, father of the martyred jawan said. “He was just 22 years old and he had hardly completed a year with the Indian Army. He was the sole earning member of our family. I do not know how we are going to survive now,” he added. 

His father said that the government should ensure that strict punishment is given to those who killed his son. Dalai was a resident of the Jamuna Balia village in Howrah district of West Bengal. 

Besides Balia, Sepoy Biswajit Ghorai from Bengal was martyred in the terrorist attack. The mortal remains of both the martyrs were flown in from Jammu and Kashmir to the city. 

On September 18, a group of heavily armed terrorists stormed into the Army administrative base at Uri. As many as 18 soldiers were martyred and several others were injured during the counter-terrorist operation.

In the counter-terrorist operations, the army neutralised the four ‘fidayeens’, who had stormed into the Uri base.