Uttarakhand: It was their father's wish that at least four bighas of land is given for the expansion of an Eidgah.
Saroj and Anita fulfilled their father Brajnandan Prasad Rastogi's wish by donating the four bighas of land worth over Rs 1.5 crore to the Eidgah committee in Uttarakhand's Kashipur after twenty years of his death.
Kashipur is a small town in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand and the gesture by the sisters won praise, at a time when reports of communal tensions are coming in from parts of the country.
Brajnandan Prasad Rastogi had confided to his close relatives that he wished to donate four bighas of his agricultural land to an Eidgah for its expansion.
Before he could share his last wish with his children, he died in January 2003.
His two daughters Saroj and Anita, who live in Delhi and Meerut, came to know about their father's last wish through relatives recently.
They immediately contacted their brother Rakesh Rastogi, who lives in Kashipur, to seek his consent for it and he agreed readily.
"Honouring father's last wish was our duty. My sisters have done something which will make his soul rest in peace," Rakesh Rastogi said when contacted.
"The two sisters are a living example of communal unity. The Eidgah committee expresses its gratitude to them for the kind gesture. The two sisters will soon be felicitated for what they have done," Hasin Khan of the Eidgah committee said.
(PTI Inpu)