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Slain engineer’s family deplores Government’s indifference

Varanasi: The family of M. P. Singh, the Border Roads Organisation engineer killed on Saturday in the Taliban suicide bombing in Afghanistan, is angry at the “indifference” of the authorities.

Uma Devi, the widow of Singh, told PTI on Sunday afternoon that no one from the Central Government or State Government had spoken to the family.

“No official of the Government of India, Uttar Pradesh Government or local administration has spoken to the family so far,” she said.

The slain engineer’s elder brother was also critical of the “attitude” of the Government.

“I have no words to describe the cruel act of the terrorists, but the family is more agonised by the attitude of the Central Government, Army and even the local authorities, who do not even have a minute’s time to visit us,” said Rajendra Singh.

The family claims it is yet to get any official information about the dispatch of the body from Afghanistan.

The engineer, a resident of Shivpuram in the Sigra area of Varanasi, had joined the BRO in 1988 and had gone to Afghanistan on December 6 last year with his unit.

He leaves behind two children, Neha (14) and Nikhil (12). His father, 78-year-old Hanuman Singh, said with grief, ‘Bhagvan ko is umar mein hamein utha lena chahiye tha, na ki hamare bachche ko.(God should have taken me, rather than my son.)’

Singh and another engineer were killed in a suicide bombing by the Taliban at Nimroz. PTI

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