Jaipur: In procession for the funeral of Major Sankalp Yadav Starting from his Nand Puri residence on Saturday afternoon, a large number of people could be seen raising patriotic slogans.
Members of the army, police, local administration, ministers and MLAs, the common man, all bid a tearful farewell to Major Sankalp Yadav, who died after a helicopter crash in Srinagar on Friday.
Major Yadav’s body reached Jaipur and was received by his maternal uncle and brother, as the army officers consoled him.
Later, the mortal remains were taken to their Nand Puri residence in a truck decorated with flowers. Since morning, many people including his family members, people of the locality and other Jaipurites started reaching his residence. Cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariawas got into the truck carrying the body and kept on shouting ‘Sankalp Yadav amar rahe’ till the body reached the crematorium.
The martyr’s mother hugged her and kept on weeping as her relatives and women around consoled her.
When the funeral procession started, everyone including shopkeepers, traders, traffic people paid tribute to their hero. Everyone in the traffic was stopping their vehicle to make way for the procession.
Ram Kishan, a 60-year-old man who came from Pratap Nagar area to attend the last rites, said, “He was only 29 years old and he sacrificed his life.”
On reaching the cremation ground on Ajmer Road, a large number of people raised slogans of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, ‘Major Sankalp Amar Rahe’.
Elder brother Major Sankalp Yadav sent the body of Rohit Yadav in flames and filled everyone’s eyes with tears at the cremation ground. Many people were seen wiping their tears.
Cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariawas, BJP leader Arun Chaturvedi and various army officers also paid floral tributes.
Major Yadav was killed when an Army Cheetah helicopter on a mission to rescue a sick soldier crashed on Friday in Baraub area of Gurez in Bandipora district of Srinagar.
Members of the army, police, local administration, ministers and MLAs, the common man, all bid a tearful farewell to Major Sankalp Yadav, who died after a helicopter crash in Srinagar on Friday.
Major Yadav’s body reached Jaipur and was received by his maternal uncle and brother, as the army officers consoled him.
Later, the mortal remains were taken to their Nand Puri residence in a truck decorated with flowers. Since morning, many people including his family members, people of the locality and other Jaipurites started reaching his residence. Cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariawas got into the truck carrying the body and kept on shouting ‘Sankalp Yadav amar rahe’ till the body reached the crematorium.
The martyr’s mother hugged her and kept on weeping as her relatives and women around consoled her.
When the funeral procession started, everyone including shopkeepers, traders, traffic people paid tribute to their hero. Everyone in the traffic was stopping their vehicle to make way for the procession.
Ram Kishan, a 60-year-old man who came from Pratap Nagar area to attend the last rites, said, “He was only 29 years old and he sacrificed his life.”
On reaching the cremation ground on Ajmer Road, a large number of people raised slogans of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, ‘Major Sankalp Amar Rahe’.
Elder brother Major Sankalp Yadav sent the body of Rohit Yadav in flames and filled everyone’s eyes with tears at the cremation ground. Many people were seen wiping their tears.
Cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariawas, BJP leader Arun Chaturvedi and various army officers also paid floral tributes.
Major Yadav was killed when an Army Cheetah helicopter on a mission to rescue a sick soldier crashed on Friday in Baraub area of Gurez in Bandipora district of Srinagar.