Rai Singh’s eldest son lit the funeral pyre.
Haryana Ministers Manish Grover and Krishan Lal Panwar, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, State Congress chief Ashok Tanwar and INLD’s senior leader Abhay Singh Chautala were among those who paid their last respects.
The martyr is survived by his aged mother, wife and three sons. Singh’s wife, Sunita, who had last seen her husband three months ago when he came home, was inconsolable.
Notably, Rai Singh is the third soldier from Haryana to be martyred within last one month.
Rai Singh was injured in shelling from the Pakistani side on November 20 night along LoC in Rajouri sector. He later succumbed to his injuries.
Nearly three weeks back, Mandeep Singh of the Army’s Sikh regiment, was killed by militants in Macchil sector of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir. He hailed from Antehri in Kurukshetra district.
Barely week before Mandeep’s martyrdom, BSF constable Sushil Kumar, who belonged to Pehowa in Kurukshetra district, was also martyred in Jammu district.
(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:newsx.com)
