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| Par attack: Victim's kin woes conti |
| ''We don't want all these tributes to be paid. I don't have anything. Nobody listens to us,'' she said.
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| INDIA
, 13-December-2007
2:54:46 AM |
| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh faced some embarrassing moments at a function to mark the anniversary of the December 13 parliament attack of 2001.
A tearful Vimla Devi, wife of ASI Nanak Chand, who was killed in the 2001 terrorist attack, turned up at a function that was also attended by Leader of the Opposition L K Advani and Home Minister Shivraj Patil to pay tributes to the martyrs.
Narrating her woes, she told the function in Parliament House that she was yet to get land for a petrol pump, which had been allotted to her as part of compensation following the killing of her husband.
''We don't want all these tributes to be paid. I don't have anything. Nobody listens to us,'' she said.
As Vimla Devi was escorted out, BJP MP Sushma Swaraj, who was also present at the function, later told reporters that the leaders spoke to the Home Minister who assured them that the process of relief and rehabilitation of the victims' families would be completed by next year.
''She is saying that she has not got anything. We have demanded that wherever there is any gap, it should be filled,'' Swaraj said, adding it was a matter of great concern that the families were still facing problems even six year after the Parliament attack case.
The function was also attended by Vice President Hamid Ansari, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, Union Ministers A K Antony and P R Dasmunsi, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and BJP
MPs V K Malhotra and Jaswant Singh.
A total of six Delhi Police personnel, one gardener and five terrorists were killed in the attack.
Earlier, at the start of the function, the leaders paid floral tributes to the victims.
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