'Papa Is On Duty In Jammu': Son Of Martyr Jaimal Singh Who Drove CRPF Bus Attacked In Pulwama

Feb 19: Confused seeing his mother and grandmother crying and in a state of shock, five-year-old Gurprakash Singh was clueless about what was going on in his home. The innocent kid only knew that his father was ‘on duty’ in Jammu and will be back soon to get him admitted to a new school.

“Papa is on duty in Jammu… he will be back soon. He is in CRPF. He is there to get some money for us..,” Gurparkash - the son of CRPF head constable Jaimal Singh who was martyred in the Pulwama attack - told agency.

Jaimal Singh was the driver of the bus that was blown up by the terrorists after Jaish terrorists targeted a convoy with 350 kg of explosives in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district. Singh only had one dream - a good education for his son and for that he was planning to shift his family from Moga to Chandigarh by the end of this month.

He himself couldn’t study in a good school and that is why he wanted his son to get the best of education. “We were moving to Chandigarh later this month. He wanted to get our son admitted to a new school from class I. Our son was born after 18 years of our marriage after several complications and miscarriages. The only person whom he loved the most in the entire world was our son. I do not know how Gurparkash is going to live without him now,” Sukhjit Kaur, his wife told agency.

Martyr Jaimal Singh joined CRPF to support his family and first supported the education of his siblings and then his son. His sister Harwinder Kaur said, “My elder brother was the only one who had fought with my parents when they discontinued my schooling after class 8. We were a poor family. He joined the army to support us, to feed us.”