For Us Nation Is Bigger Than Our Son: Sartaj Ahmad

Every Indian must be proud of Sartaj. What Sartaj has done is unprecedented and must be emulated by the father of all those sons who pick up guns and become terrorists! One must bestow his/her unadulterated appreciation to all those especially politicians who in the parliament publicly backed Sartaj and appreciated him lavishly! He certainly deserves it! Many often we don’t see such appreciation but in this case we are seeing it and this is a very good news! Rajnath Singh deserves full credit for summoning the courage to speak publicly in parliament in favour of Sartaj and hailing him in no uncertain terms! We are proud of you, Rajnath!

- Sanjeev Sirohi

One should congratulate to our Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh who had the exemplary courage and conviction to publicly hail Sartaj Ahmad who disowned his son Saifullah and refused to accept his dead body to cremate him as he had become a terrorist. No doubt, what Sartaj Ahmad has done has no parallel. Every father must always emulate Sartaj but in reality we don’t see this happening. But what Rajnath Singh who is our Home Minister has done is no less courageous and one from the inner core of heart hails him for doing so because this has sent a clear message that the whole nation is solidly behind Sartaj even though his son wrongly chose the wrong track.

Truth be told, Sartaj minced no words in saying that a person who cannot be of his country cannot be ours. He also made it clear that for them country is bigger than son. It must be revealed here that Sartaj’s son Saifullah who had left his home about two and a half month back after having a fight with his father became a terrorist even though he was a B. Com from Manohar Lal Degree College in Kanpur and was killed on March 8 after an encounter with security forces and a lot of ammunition, pistols, bombs etc. were recovered. Sartaj in a very bold move said that a terrorist should not get the shoulder of any person and refused to extend it to his slain son’s dead body.