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Tributes Continue To Pour In For CDS Bipin Rawat, Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha Pays Respect To Victims , Leaders Across Party Lines Remember Him

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The Lok Sabha paid its respects Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat , who along with his wife and 11 others died in chopper crash in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. The members also stood in silence for a brief while as a mark of respect for the departed souls.

As soon as the House met for the day, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made a statement on the crash, and said that an inquiry has started into the incident. He also paid tributes to the deceased.

As a mark of respect towards General Rawat and other deceased, the Opposition leaders called off their ongoing sit-in protest against the suspension of the 12 Rajya Sabha MPs for the day.

Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Upper House Mallikarjun Kharge told ANI on Thursday, “We have decided not to protest, against the suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha MPs, today in honour of CDS General Bipin Rawat and the soldiers who died in the chopper crash and to pay tribute to them. “We will also attend Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s address.”

Rajya Sabha observes two-minute silence on the demise of Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife, and other personnel in a military helicopter crash near Coonoor, Tamil Nadu.

Meanwhile, Floral tributes were on Thursday paid to Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 11 others killed in an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter crash here earlier.

Senior Army officials, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, state ministers and Army veterans laid wreaths and paid floral tributes to the mortal remains of the deceased at the Madras Regimental Centre at Wellington.

The mortal remains of the crash victims in caskets wrapped in the Indian tricolour were brought to the venue in decorated army trucks.

Tamil Nadu Ministers K N Nehru, MP Saminathan and K Ramachandran, senior state government and police officials and Army personnel among others paid tributes to the departed persons.

Moreover tributes have not stopped for Bipin Rawat, Leaders cutting across party lined paid their respects on twitter

S Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister

M K Stalin, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

Omar Abdullah, Former J& K Chief Minister,

P Chidambaram, Congress Leader and Former Finance Minister

Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister

Mahua Moitra. TMC MP Lok Sabha

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