Martyr Harbhajan Singh’s wife Jaswinder Kaur and son Ranjit Singh.

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Mansa, June 21

An unemployed ETT-TET pass son of a martyred soldier is angry with the Punjab Government’s decision to give jobs to sons of MLAs on compassionate grounds.

Harbhajan Singh, a soldier from Mandali village in Mansa district, was martyred in Operation Rakshak in Jammu and Kashmir in 1995. His son Ranjit Singh, who was only three years old at that time, now holds BA and MA

degrees. He has also cleared ETT and TET.

Ranjit Singh said, “My father was with the 7th Rashtriya Rifles Battalion of the Army and was martyred on June 7, 1995, in Jammu and Kashmir.”

After completing higher education, Ranjit Singh sought a job from the government on compassionate grounds, but it rejected his request. “We are not begging, we are just asking for our rights,” he said. He also said the state government had not provided any assistance to the family till date. In 2017, he wrote a letter to the state Department of Defence Services Welfare, but got a reply that his case could not be taken up.