The Chief Minister also said that IAF Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor in the crash was receiving the best treatment at the Air Force's Command Hospital in Bengaluru, and wished for his speedy recovery.
General Bipin Rawat Cremation: A huge crowd of people lined up on both sides of the dedicated road route to bid final goodbye to the top Army General.
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Sanjay Raut said that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh or Prime Minister Narendra Modi should eliminate all doubts about CDS General Bipin Rawat's helicopter crash incident.
Brigadier LS Lidder's last rites were performed by his brave daughter. Talking exclusively with India TV, his daughter shed light on what she felt about losing her father. She said that losing her father was like losing a best friend.
Many leaders are reaching the house of General Bipin Rawat to pay him their last tributes. Even an emotional Rahul Gandhi was seen at his house, who paid him floral tribute.
Group Captain Varun Singh is the Shaurya Chakra awardee. He had won the gallantry award for showing courage by handling his Tejas fighter jet after it faced a major technical issue during his sortie in October 2020.
CDS General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat, seven Indian Army officers and jawans and four Indian Air Force officers lost their lives in the military chopper crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the country's top military brass on Thursday paid homage to India's first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika, Brig LS Lidder and 10 more defence personnel at the Palam air base after their bodies were brought to Delhi in a military aircraft. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, NSA Ajit Doval, Army Chief MM Naravane, Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar, Air Chief Marshal AVR Chaudhari and Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar were among those who paid homage to the deceased at a sombre ceremony.
The move by the government comes even as a number of retired military commanders said it will be prudent to appoint Gen Naravane to the top military post as he is retiring as the Chief of Army Staff in five months.
A second-generation Army officer, Brig Lidder was set to be promoted as Major General soon and was preparing for his next posting after serving as a key member in Gen Rawat's team for more than a year.
CDS General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others lost their lives in an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris district on Wednesday afternoon.
Indian Air Force officials on Thursday found the black box of the crashed helicopter near the crash site in Tamil Nadu's Coonoor.
Thirteen of the 14 people including CDS General Bipin Rawat on board the helicopter died in the crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
Group Captain Varun Singh was in IAF's Mi-17V5 chopper along with CDS General Bipin Rawat and others when it crashed near Coonoor in Ooty on Wednesday afternoon.
The black box of ill-fated M 17 helicopter of the IAF that crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu has been found. CDS General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 11 others lost their lives in the incident.
A veteran of counterinsurgency warfare, CDS General Bipin Rawat served in the most difficult terrains including northern and eastern commands. CDS Rawat was commissioned into the Indian Army in December 1978. He previously served as Chief of the Army Staff from January 2017 to December 2019.
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The copter carrying General Rawat and his entourage crashed in apparently foggy conditions, killing the 13 people on board, the IAF and other officials said. One person -- IAF Group Captain Varun Singh -- has survived the crash and is being treated at a hospital.
Those killed in the crash included Military Adviser to the Chief of Defence Staff Brig LS Lidder and staff officer Lt Col Harjinder Singh. Group Captain Varun Singh is the sole survivor of the crash. He battling for life at the military hospital in Wellington.
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