“I am thrilled. The entire country is appreciating my son. What else a mother wants?” said Jayashree, mother of Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer Suhas L.Y, who won a silver medal in the Paralympics in Tokyo.
Jayashree spoke to The Hindu over the phone from Gautham Buddha Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. She has been flooded with phone calls from September 5 morning. Many of her friends, relatives called her up to congratulate her. “There have been many calls since he won the medal. Everybody is appreciating him. Just now I watched Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking to my son”, she said.
Jayashree said her son worked hard for the Paralympics for the last two months. His efforts have paid him. Besides the sport, he had earned a good name as an officer in Uttar Pradesh. “He worked in different places in UP and won the appreciation of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He was posted in Gautham Buddha Nagar to bring COVID-19 under control” she said.
Suhas’s relatives are all happy…
