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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 have 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 have 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 worry, sister. I will take his full responsibility. They killed Bitan because he was a Hindu. We are Modi’s sons. Just like Gaza was finished, we too will give a fitting 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 asked us, ‘Are you Muslims? Can you recite the Kalma?’ And then… they killed him. My child keeps saying, ‘Fire… fire… Mummy, Papa gone.’ His father was murdered right before his eyes.”
She added, “I have no one left. My husband was everything to me. He believed in 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 residence on Thursday and stay by their facet. “This is not just about politics—it’s about religion,” he mentioned.
Bitan’s dad and mom Bureshwar and Maya, who had as soon as fled Bangladesh as a result of spiritual persecution, are devastated. “We left our homeland because we were Hindus. We never imagined our son would meet the same fate here,” they mentioned in disbelief.
Bitan was among the many 26 individuals—principally vacationers—who have been shot lifeless by terrorists in Pahalgam. Three terrorists who carried out a barbaric assault have been recognized, with companies 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&Okay in August that yr.
