Chandigarh, July 29 - Embarrassed by recent events which forced Taufique Kitchlew, son of freedom fighter Saifudin Kitchlew, to leave Amritsar city for want of adequate accommodation, the Punjab government Wednesday offered government accommodation and a pension to him.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal made the offer for free government accommodation to Taufique, the only surviving son of Saifudin Kitchlew, legendary hero of Jallianwala Bagh massacre, if he intended to settle down in Amritsar, a government spokesman said here Wednesday.

Badal announced that Taufique would also be given lifetime pension.

The Amritsar deputy commissioner has been asked to find suitable accommodation for Taufique, who wanted to settle down in Amritsar and write memoirs of the freedom movement.

'Saifudin Kitchlew was one of the renowned stalwarts of Indian freedom movement and it is the bounden duty of our government to take care of his family in recognition of his rare contribution towards the freedom struggle.