NEW DELHI – Indian Minister mocks and ridicules the dead Indian Armysoldier being Muslim. Amid the controversy from Bihar government CM notattending the last rites of slain CRPF jawan Mujahid Khan, one of hisministers has justified the absence of ministers.

Speaking to news agency ANI, Bihar minister Vinod Singh asked if hisattending the last rites of the jawan would have made the martyr aliveagain.

“Kal hi jaake kya fayda hota? Maine dil se unko salute kiya hai, aur kal hijaake kya hum unko zinda kar dete? (What would have been the benefit of ourgoing there yesterday? I have saluted him from my heart. Would the martyrhave been alive again had we gone there?)” said the minister.

When asked about the controversy, the agitated minister said, “Don’t youknow how far Katihar is from Piro? I covered a distance of 400 km to behere today and I am going to meet the bereaved family of the martyr.”

This comes a day after the family of the CRPF jawan, who died fightingmilitants in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, turned down a cheque of Rs 5 lakhlink>fromthe Bihar government, saying it was “demeaning” as Army personnel killed insuch incidents get Rs 11 lakh.

The cheque was given to Khan’s family in Bhojpur district’s Piro Tehsilwhere the slain CRPF constable’s body was brought on Wednesday morning andthe funeral held with full police honours.

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen Party (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisihad attacked the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar for not visiting thefamily of the martyr. “Mujahid Khan – a constable of CRPF, a resident ofBihar, Piro district Ara – not a single minister of Nitish Kumar visitedthe deceased family,” Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad had tweeted.