In a rather helpless and even pathos filled letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he wrote, “I, Ankit Love, son of late Prof Bhim Singh and late Adv Jay Mala, resident of the UK, hereby sincerely apologise for my mistake of pelting eggs and stones at the Indian High Commission in the UK, which I deeply and sincerely regret.”
With his deceased mother Jay Mala’s body lying in a mortuary in Jammu for over a week, Ankit Love, the UK-based son of J&K National Panthers Party (JKNPP) founder Bhim Singh, has tendered a profuse and unconditional apology for his “mistake of pelting eggs and stones at the Indian High Commission In UK”. He said he has been waiting for his visa so he can come to India to perform his mother’s last rites, but has been told that he was “blacklisted” due to the February 2021 protest that he took part in at the high commission in London.
“I want to see my mother’s face and give her a hug for one last time,” he told The Indian Express via phone from London. “My mother was a Goud Brahmin from UP’s Meerut, and she has all the right to have decent and respectful last rites performed for her as per the Hindu rituals that she believed in till her last breath. I, being her only son, want to perform it on the banks of the holy Devak river in Udhampur, which was her last wish,” he said.
In this communication to Modi dated May 2, he wrote, “I, Ankit Love, son of late Prof Bhim Singh and late Adv Jay Mala, resident of the UK, hereby sincerely apologise for my mistake of pelting eggs and stones at the Indian High Commission in the UK, which I deeply and sincerely regret.”
Written in a contrite tone, Ankit Love Bhim Singh wrote that he appealed for urgent visa approval to visit “my Union Territory – Jammu and Kashmir – which is in India”. He also wrote that he was misguided by “some other people surrounding me, which led to this mistake, which I sincerely apologise for”.
“…I assure you that henceforth there will be no such act by me against my nation, which I love very much and am very much proud of,” Love wrote, adding that his late father Bhim Singh had also fought all his life for the full accession of Jammu and Kashmir with India.
He added in his letter that he did not wish to move to Jammu permanently, and that the government could allow him to take his mother’s body from the mortuary “to Devak in Udhampur, under police cover, and once I perform her last rites, it can make me board the returning flight to UK”.
Jay Mala, a senior Supreme Court lawyer, died on April 26, and her body has been at the Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu since then, even as family members aligned on opposite sides for control of the JKNPP battle it out over the cremation.
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