Syed Ali Ahmed,Tribune News Service,New Delhi, December 23

Parliament mourns victims’ death | BSF, DGCA to probe | Angry kin confront Union Home Minister

Mourning the death of 10 BSF personnel in air crash yesterday at Dwarka in Delhi, members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha stood in silence for a brief while, though a separate inquiry by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the BSF is being done to know the reason behind the crash.In the Rajya Sabha, Chairman Hamid Ansari and in the Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan expressed condolences over the death of the BSF personnel and prayed for the injured.Sources, who were at the homage paying ceremony of the deceased, said the BSF and the DGCA have constituted inquiry to find out the actual reason for the crash. Union Minister Rajnath Singh was also present at the ceremony.A mourning relative of one of the 10 paramilitary personnel confronted Rajnath, asking him as to “why does a soldier’s family cries every time?”“Sir, why does the soldier’s family has to cry every time?” Why sir? Why wasn’t it a VIP plane? Why were they given such an old plane? It was an old aircraft. Sir, please answer me,” the girl questioned the Home Minister.Captain Shivrain’s family alleged that despite the aircraft was very old, it was never replaced by the force.“I told Rajnath Singh that the accident probably happened because it was an old plane. Though my son-in-law is no more, the BSF is yet to induct new planes,” said Wazir Singh Panwar, father-in-law of co-pilot Rajesh Shivrain, a deceased.