SRINAGAR: Father of PDP youth president Waheed Parra has passed away. Ghulam Ahmad Parra has been battling cancer for more than one year. He was 62.
Parra was a model apple grower in his area. Son of a staunch Congressman, he is survived by three sons and a daughter. The minor son of his daughter is currently admitted to AIIMS and has been in a coma for the last two months.
Parra’s funeral prayers are slated to take place after 10:30 am at Naira in Pulwama. The family is waiting for his daughter to fly from Delhi where she is attending to her daughter.
For the last year, Parra was moving from one hospital to another after he was detected with fourth-stage metastatic squamous cell carcinoma. Authorities prevented his son from accompanying him to the hospitals in Delhi
