Chandrashekar Jangam

He fought for his right for 54 years, before finally succumbing to the stress of it all and old age last month. And the state is capitalising on his death to weasel out of fulfilling its promise — we are talking about Indian Army veteran Chandrashekar Jangam, who died on March 19, after waiting and fighting for a piece of land in Satara for which he had paid in 1968, and the Maharashtra government, who had promised a plot to his family and has now gone back on its word.