“Where is Papa? Went somewhere?” Sohini cannot answer the cold question that her three -year -old son asks, wakes up in the middle of the night, the voice is trembling with fear.
All he can do is cry for her husband, because her son’s words pass through silence as a broken glass.
The father of the child Bitan Adhikari was shot by a terrorist in the middle of the breathtaking beauty of Pahalgama Kashmir.
What was supposed to be a family trip to the “heaven on Earth” became a nightmare for the Adhikari family, which never rejOs on.
Bitan Adhikari, originally from West Bengal, settled in Florida with his family a few years ago. 8th April returned to Kolkata to visit relatives and at the time of attacking a holiday in Kashmir with his family.
“They separated us,” his wife Sohini Adhikari told the news canal, and her voice burst.
“They asked where we were from, then segregated men, asked their religion and shot them one by one. My husband was murdered directly in front of our child. How can I explain it to him?” She said.
“I don’t know how to tell his son that his father is gone forever,” he says, and her voice barely whispers. “He wakes up in horror, clutches my hand and begs -” Where is my father? “”
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Bitan Adhikari took care of his parents, Financial Shield has already left
Back home in Calcutta, grief runs deeper.
Bitan was not only a devoted husband and father, but also the primary carer for his aging and sick parents, even though he lived abroad.
His father, 87 -year -old Bireshwar Adhikari, and his 75 -year -old mother Maya Adhikari are in bad health.
It was a bitan that managed its health expenses and sent money from abroad to ensure that they had never missed a dose of drug or appoint a doctor.
“Maybe he was overseas, but he never let us feel his absence,” the grieving relative said.
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“From the arrangement of their inspections after paying for every prescription, bitan managed everything. Who will take care of them?”
The attack of April 22 declared the lives of 25 Indian tourists and one National National National, and others were injured.
The wild nature of killing, allegedly after terrorists separated tourists outside Kashmir and asked them about their religion, caused national outrage.
Back in Calcutta, when neighbors and relatives try to comfort the adhikari family, the pain remains too deep to the words.
“I just want someone to tell my son why his father never returns. And I want justice – not only for my husband, but for every innocent person who lost his life that day,” his wife said.
The leader of the Congress of Trinamool Kunal Ghosh added to the family’s call for justice and publicly referred to social media and urged the central and state governments to consider the situation of Bitan’s parents and at the same time to compensate.
“Do not give the entire amount of compensation to Mrs. Adhikari himself,” Ghosh published on X.
“Kindly divide it and also give the amount to the parents of Mr. Bitan Adhikari. They are absolutely helpless. After Bitan’s death, parents became the most helpless. They must be given financial protection,” he said.
He further stressed that if the older parents were no longer alive, the amount would naturally return to Bitan’s wife and son, but at the moment the parents’ situation guaranteed immediate, independent attention.
“I am convinced that the state government will consider this point seriously. The central government should also think,” he wrote.
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