Sole breadwinner Malerkotla woman in shock over loss of son at Surrey in Canada

Mahesh Sharma

Malerkotla, August 6

Four days after the sudden death of her elder son at Surrey in Canada, Hardeep Kaur, the woman head of a farmer family in Jandali Kalan village, is yet to come out of shock.

This is not the first time misfortune has caught her unawares. Hardeep Kaur lost her husband and father-in-law one after the other early in life. She lost her father when she was in Class IV, leaving her three sisters and one brother to face the vagaries of life. She brought up her two sons, Amanjot Singh and Pawanjot Singh. She sent the elder one in search of greener pastures to Canada on a study visa, like many other peasant families, by selling a major chunk of her land.

It was the outcome of his hardwork that Amanjot had started supporting his mother financially and had plans to get his younger brother and mother to settle in Canada.

But destiny’s cruel hands snatched her son from her when Amanjot suffered a silent cardiac arrest at his house at Surrey in Canada and succumbed without medical aid.

Unlike other families facing a similar fate, Hardeep is not seeking any kind of financial help from the government or a non-government agency for the repatriation of the deceased’s body. “I will take my younger son to Brampton to perform the last rites of our beloved Amanjot,” corroborated Hardeep Kaur.

Meanwhile, Rajinder Singh Bath, an NRI settled in Canada and close friend of the aggrieved family, said he had taken up the issue with Brampton MP Ruby Sahota to facilitate easy visas for Hardeep Kaur and Pawanjot Singh.