KAMALPUR, JULY 19 (TIWN): Amidst the CM’s trumpeted demand of prosperity and development for each citizen ushered here in Tripura; a son had to sell his BPL ration card to a neighbor for his father’s last rites. The shameful and tragic incident occurred at the remote Durai-Shyamrai para under Kamalpur subdivision. However, the administration remained in slumber yet about the happenings.

According to the villagers of Durai-Shyamrai, one Kamalkanta Debbarma breathed his last on 4^th July at an age of 85 years. His son Rajendra decided to do the last rites after 13 days on 17^th July last. But due to poor economic conditions he failed to manage the money required for it.

He knocked the village leaders of CPI-M for help but none paid any heed to his appeal. The local elected body of Shyamraicharra VC also remained reluctant. In these circumstances he was left with no other way but to sell his property and only property left with him was his BPL ration card. Then he sold it to one of his neighbors at a cost of 5, 000 rupees. And then he completed his father’s last rites yesterday. When asked Rajendra and his family members they also admitted this.

What is more pitiful is that the administration yet not aware of such an inhuman incident in the sub-division.