Rajasthan: Help daughter get last glimpse of her father, says Priyanka Gandhi to PM Narendra Modi

KOTA: With an emotional note that 'a teen daughter wants to have a last glimpse of her father', Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to help bring back the body of Udaipur's tribal man Hitendra Garasia stuck in Russia for last six months.
The aggrieved family has been running from pillar to post in New Delhi to get back the body to perform last rites as per Hindu tribal custom.

The Congress leader uploaded her picture with Hitendra's wife and daughter and the letter to PM on her twitter handle @priyankagandhivadra on Friday noon.
"I would like to draw your attention to a very sensitive issue," Gandhi wrote and added the family of Hitendra Garasia, who reportedly died in Russia on July 17, 2021, has been demanding to bring back the body for respectable last rites in his motherland. Exhibiting courage, teen daughter of deceased Hitendra Garasia had even approached the PMO and appealed the authorities to facilitate home return of his deceased father's body, she added. A teen daughter wants to have a last glimpse of her father but no action into the matter has been noticed so far, AICC general secretary said.
Deceased Hitendra Garasia's wife Asha Devi, teen daughter Urvashi and son Piyush, accompanied by Bundi-based Congress leader Charmesh Sharma reached Prayanka Gandhi's office in New Delhi earlier this week after they allegedly failed to get response from PMO and Indian embassy.
Hitendra Garasia (46), a resident of Godwa village in Udaipur district, had gone to Russia in April last year through a travel agent for employment. Hitendra reportedly died on July 17 last year but his family was informed of his death two months later on September 17. Since then the family has been struggling to get back the body for last rites in homeland and has even moved the Rajasthan High Court at Jodhpur for it.