Don't make a joke of your father's martydom: Pathankot attack martyr's daughter to Gurmehar Kaur

New Delhi: Pooja, the daughter of Pathankot martyr Lance Naik Moolraj, on Friday urged Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur not to make a joke of her father Captain Mandeep Singh's martyrdom.

Captain Singh was killed in a militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir in 1999.

A student of Lady Shri Ram College, Kaur had to leave Delhi for Punjab after getting death and rape threats following her social media campaign against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

Kaur, 24, had held a placard stating "I am not afraid of ABVP", following the violence at Ramjas college, which went viral and received massive support from students across various universities.

Clashes erupted between activists of the leftist All India Students Association (AISA) and the ABVP outside Ramjas College last week, a day after the ABVP forced suspension of an event to be addressed by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid, jailed last year for allegedly shouting anti-national slogans.

Kaur, who faced rape and death threats, tweeted her withdrawal from the campaign on Tuesday morning.

"I'm withdrawing from the campaign. Congratulations everyone. I request to be left alone. I said what I had to say," Kaur tweeted.

Kaur, in the centre of a countrywide debate on free speech post her campaign against ABVP, was provided security by Punjab Police at her native place in Jalandhar.

Mool Raj, father of two had fallen to the bullets of terrorists in Pathankot, just a day after he returned to join his duties after celebrating the New Year with his family which consists his aged mother, wife and two college going children.

Before returning to his duties in Pathankot, he took a promise from his children that one day they would make him feel proud.

Mool Raj, who had joined the Defence Security Corps (DSC) after his retirement from the army 13 years ago, was one amongst the seven brave martyrs who laid down their lives while fighting the terrorists who attacked the Air Force base in Pathankot.