The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee announced a compensation of Rs. 2 Lakh to the families of the soldiers from West Bengal who lost their lives in the attacks of Uri. However, the amount offered was not good enough to value the sacrifices of our brave army men. Indeed, there’s nothing that can compensate to the loss of the families. However, financial-aid to a soldier’s family cannot be mere Rs. 2 Lakh, that’s unreasonable instead!
Everyone felt this was unfair because back in 2015, she had announced a compensation for Rs. 10 lakhs per family of pilgrims who lost their lives in Mecca Crash accident!
That’s when raged twitterati lashed out at the Chief Minister with #MartyrsNotBeggars tags to express their anger and disappointment. Yes, they deserve much more than that, don’t you agree? Here are some of the slamming tweets:
That is insulting and unreasonable!
https://twitter.com/sir_sumitjangid/status/778840675114741761
2 lakhs for Martyrs? Bad!
Gold chain for crores earning cricketers
2L for Martyrs
Thats "SecLib" MamtaDidi for you
Dear WB CM #MartyrsNotBeggars
— Debjani🇮🇳🇮🇳 (@devyanidilli) September 22, 2016
Gold chain for crores earning cricketers
2L for Martyrs
Thats "SecLib" MamtaDidi for you
Dear WB CM #MartyrsNotBeggars— Debjani🇮🇳🇮🇳 (@devyanidilli) September 22, 2016
It is a shame!
Its is a shame for Bengalis to have created a #Sickular Monster like @MamataOfficial#MartyrsNotBeggars
— Kaushik Mukherjee 🇮🇳 (@kush07) September 22, 2016
Some even compared her compensations offered to the victims of the attacks in Mecca with tweets like these:
Its pathetic & shameful that a particular religion matters more than patriots in our nation
Anybody listening ?? #MartyrsNotBeggars pic.twitter.com/dZMAado6O3— Anurag saxena (@saaxenanurag) September 22, 2016
Pathetic!
https://twitter.com/priya_tata_/status/778783622132359169
10 lakhs for Mecca victims?
Jihadi Didi offers ₹2L compensation for Uri "Martyrs" and ₹10L for Mecca "Victims".
Vote Bank above Nation !!#MartyrsNotBeggars pic.twitter.com/10OkZCon5q— #Ashima# (Modi's Family) 🇮🇳 (@AshiWords) September 22, 2016
A Martyr’s wife refused!
WB CM @MamataOfficial
Keep ur 2 Lakh (our money actually) & spend on ur votebank
Dnt insult India#MartyrsNotBeggars pic.twitter.com/SC3RBu0Pml— Debjani🇮🇳🇮🇳 (@devyanidilli) September 22, 2016
Life insurance of 1 crores!
https://twitter.com/TheRahulMahajan/status/778806117455409153
Shame on vote bank hungry political vulture!
It is SO sad that we even have to trend something like #MartyrsNotBeggars. #Shame on all vote bank hungry political vultures.
— Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 (@ShefVaidya) September 22, 2016
Tell us what’s your take on such an absurd compensation offered to our courageous soldiers in our somments section given below.