“My sons accompanied me last time (2019) to vote. Today they are not with me,” says 51-year-old Bala, the pain of losing her two children in a militant attack last year writ large on her face.
Bala’s sons – Deepak Sharma (24) and Prince Sharma (21) – were among seven civilians killed when militants struck their village on January 1, 2023, opening indiscriminate fire on the members of the minority community before fleeing the scene. They also left behind an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) which went off the next morning.
Bala’s sons – Deepak Sharma (24) and Prince Sharma (21) – were among seven civilians killed when militants struck their village on January 1, 2023, opening indiscriminate fire on the members of the minority community before fleeing the scene. They also left behind an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) which went off the next morning.
“I am deeply pained as my sons are not with me,” Bala, a widow, told PTI after casting her vote at the polling station set up at the local government higher secondary school.
She said she left behind her pain to exercise the fundamental right as a tribute to the victims of the terror attack.
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