Twelve of the 40 CRPF personnel killed in the ambush in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama hailed from Uttar Pradesh. The families of most of the deceased soldiers said they were waiting for the promises to be fulfilled. I pay the fees of my sons, Samar and Sahil, who go to a village school,” Sanju Devi said. We are mere political pawns in their hands and they use us for electoral gains and then dump us.”“Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Varanasi on February 16. “We neither have his statue nor a memorial on the first anniversary of the Pulwama attack.

Source: The Telegraph February 14, 2020 21:33 UTC