Mother meets dead son in Sourav Ganguly

Lucknow, Mar 19 (UNI) A mother, who lost her engineer son in an accident in 1994, yesterday met him again in the embattled cricket son of India, Sourav Ganguly.

Sudha Srivastava, a resident of Gomtinagar area of the City of Nawabs, lost her 24-year-old M.Tech student son Vijay in a road accident at Jaipur in 1994.

The light at the end of the dark tunnel, came for Sudha, when she was told by many of her well-wishers about the striking resemblance that her son had with the Prince of Kolkata, Sourav Ganguly.

''Since then I have seen my son live in the former Team India captain,'' gushed Sudha, who had even performed yagna in the past for the success of her son's famed lookalike.

Sudha even claims to have shown Dada's horoscope to a famous astrologer, to pave the way for runaway success of the elegant southpaw.

The mother's dream to meet her son's lookalike in person, was however, fulfilled, at the nets in the K D Singh Babu stadium here when, following the timely help of a few mediapersons and Bengal team manager Samir Das Gupta, Sudha, with welled-up eyes, presented a bouquet of flowers to the all rounder.

''This is a big moment of my life, which was hitherto plunged in darkness, to catch a glimpse of the living shadow of my son,'' said an emotional Sudha, hoping that Sourav would remember this mother from Lucknow forever.

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