Mera Bharat Mahaan!

 

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 Read this and then tell me....... 

 

Kumar, you tell me to write a poem on Albert Ekka.......and, I want to tell you this :

37 years after Albert Ekka was awarded the Param Vir Chakra(the Highest Gallantry Award, in India) his widow Balamdina Xess Ekka got the five acres of land promised by the government.......... oh! I forgot, she was also given Rs 3.79 lakh by the authorities out of sanctioned Rs 9.5 lakh to level the rocky - worthless - piece of land allotted to her at Jari village in the district where Ekka was born.

.........this five acres of barren rocky land could not be handed over to Ekka`s family earlier as it was a piece of

         disputed land that the govt had so magnanimously allotted to Ekka for sacrificing his life for the country!

.........a Lance Naik and recipient of the highest military award the Param Vir Chakra, Ekka died in service in   

         Battle of Hilli, defending the front line of the 14th battalion of the Brigade of Guards during the Bangladesh              liberation war in 1971....... and oh! kumar, 

.........I must also tell you also that his son Vincent was nine-months-old when his father died while fighting

         the Pakistani troops at Ganga Sagar in 1971 

........ and, on 02 Sep 2013, the Jharkhand government decided to give a job to Param Vir Chakra recipient Albert          Ekka's 42-year-old son Vincent, a grade-III government job!

.........and, as for the army..... Ekka's widow Balamdina Xess Ekka was felicitated by the Eastern Command in                Kolkata on the Vijay Diwas celebrations a full 41 years after he gave his life for the country!

And, for those that don't know Ekka is the only Param Vir Chakra (Posthumous) recipient from the eastern theatre for 'displaying conspicuous bravery and determination' during the 1971 Indo-Pak War that led to the liberation of Bangladesh !

.............37 years to give a piece of useless land........

.............41 years to felicitate Balamdina Xess Ekka at Fort Williams.....

   ............ 42 years to offer his son a grade 3 job...........

............ but just 2 years to reduce his widow Balamdina Xess Ekka's family pension in 1973! 

            (Yes, pensions of Servicemen were REDUCED, in 1973, after 1971 War victory! How's that for a 
                  grateful Nation?)

.............oh! lest I forget.....

  ...........when an envoy from Bangladesh did visit Gumla, near Ranchi in Jharkhand to meet his widow and                  son, Balamdina Xess Ekka had  desired that at least the urn of her late husband be brought back 
                 to the State, (his body had been laid to rest in situ, at Dhulki, 15 km from Agartala in 
                 Tripura),..........they did, 
            the Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das handed over the urn of Lance Naik Albert Ekka to his 
                 family in Jharkhand’s Gumla district 44 years after his death,

.............and Kumar you want  me to write a poem on Albert Ekka?.......... and,

            I really don't know what to write as my heart is so heavy and my eyes are so clouded and my                            hands shake.

This is how the our Country, functions!

Proud to be an Indian?

Jai-Ho, my Indi-yaaaah! Jai!