From senior politicians and official dignitaries to civilians, the residence of Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat was flooded with individuals coming to pay his final respects.
With the final rites being carried out within the afternoon, individuals had been seen queuing exterior the home lengthy earlier than the scheduled time of 11 am.
Rawat had died in a helicopter crash alongside together with his spouse Madhulika and 11 different military personnel close to Coonoor on Wednesday.
In the morning, leaders of the federal government, opposition, paperwork and safety institution visited Rawat’s residence on Kamaraj Marg. The physique of him and his spouse can be stored on the residence until 2 pm. He will then be taken to the Berar Square crematorium, the place he can be cremated with full state honours.
People crowd exterior General Bipin Rawat’s home in New Delhi on Friday. (Express Photo: Prem Nath Pandey)
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had been amongst those that reached the residence at round 11.30 am. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, former CM Harish Rawat, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Union Ministers Anurag Thakur and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat had been additionally current on the event.
DMK’s Kanimozhi Okay, Akali Dal’s Harsimrat Kaur Badal, BJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad, Jay Panda, Congress senior chief Mallikarjun Kharge and his social gathering colleague Okay Suresh additionally got here in later to pay their tributes.
Military contingents of assorted international locations paid tribute to India’s first CDS General Bipin Rawat, who was martyred in an Indian Air Force helicopter crash on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/0iSrCOycY3
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Among the highest bureaucrats had been PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the PM and Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, seen collectively. On behalf of the safety institution, other than a number of senior military personnel, chiefs of CRPF and ITBP paid tribute to the CDS at his residence.
Civil society chief and Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi was additionally seen paying his respects.
Each consultant spent roughly 10 to fifteen minutes contained in the campus. Amid tight safety exterior the home, solely a choose few had been being allowed inside, a small crowd shouting slogans for him from his dwelling state of Uttarakhand. “General Rawat amar rahe, Madhulika Rawat amar rahein,” mentioned supporters, who weren’t allowed inside.
There was additionally a piece that began shouting slogans like “VIP culture must be ended” as they waited exterior.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
