Man running langar at IGMC announces stir

Tribune News Service

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Shimla, January 18

Sarabjit Singh Bobby, who has been running a langar at the IGMC, Shimla, for cancer patients for the last six years, has alleged that some “political people” were trying to sabotage the services he is providing at the hospital.

In a press conference on Monday, Bobby alleged that the IGMC had given the ‘rain basera’ he had helped construct to provide accommodation to cancer patients near his langar site to “a person of a ruling party”.

From funeral van to feeding patients, Bobby does it all

“I took the initiative to construct this place with the help of PWD and spent around 10 lakh from my own resources. Now, it has been given to someone else for keeping trolleys, wheelchair and run a langar,” he said.

IGMC MS Janak Raj said a facility on government land can’t be given to someone just because he has spent some money on constructing it. “We had floated tenders sometime back for the place, why didn’t he participate if he was interested,” asked Janak Raj.

Bobby said that since the site was developed for starting a ‘rain basera’, it should be used for the same purpose. “A new langar and other facilities could be started somewhere else too, why deprive cancer patients a lodging facility,” said Bobby, adding that he would sit on a protest from tomorrow.