New Delhi [India], December 13 (ANI): Congress chief and Waynad MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday remembered the safety personnel, who laid their lives throughout the terror assault in Parliament in 2001, by saying that their sacrifice evokes us to dedicate all the things within the service of the nation.
“I pay tribute to the heroes of the nation who laid down their lives to guard the honour of India on today in 2001, throughout the dastardly terrorist assault on Parliament. The entire nation is indebted to their sacrifice, which evokes us to dedicate all the things to the service of the nation,” the Congress chief tweeted in Hindi.
Congress Get together former president Sonia Gandhi paid floral tributes to the victims on the twenty first anniversary of the Parliament Assault on Tuesday.
Sonia Gandhi was accompanied by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, occasion chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to the Parliament.
Earlier on Tuesday, Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla led the nation in paying tributes to the safety personnel and victims who misplaced their lives whereas defending the Parliament 21 years in the past.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a number of Cupboard Ministers, and Parliamentarians additionally paid floral tribute to the safety personnel and victims, who sacrificed their lives in defending the Parliament throughout the terror assault in 2001.
President of India Droupadi Murmu additionally remembered the victims.
“The nation pays homage to the valiant martyrs who laid down their lives whereas defending the Parliament in opposition to terrorist assault on today in 2001. We’ll all the time stay grateful to the bravehearts for his or her braveness and supreme sacrifice,” a tweet from Rashtrapati Bhavan mentioned.
Union Regulation Minister Kiren Rijiju additionally paid tributes to the victims of the Parliament assault.
Taking to Twitter, Union Minister mentioned, “Tributes to the courageous personnel who sacrificed their lives whereas defending our Parliament in opposition to the dastardly terrorist assault on today in 2001. Their supreme sacrifice and bravado won’t ever be forgotten.”
The tributes reminded everybody in regards to the horrific terror assault on the Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001.
It could be recalled that it was on December 13, 2001, that Jagdish, Matbar, Kamlesh Kumari; Nanak Chand and Rampal, Assistant Sub-Inspectors, Delhi Police; Om Prakash, Bijender Singh and Ghanshyam, Head Constables in Delhi Police; and Deshraj, a gardener, CPWD, had sacrificed their lives whereas defending the Parliament in opposition to the terrorist assault.
The perpetrators belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)– two Pakistan-raised terrorist organisations– attacked the Parliament on December 13, 2001, that led to the deaths of 5 Delhi Police personnel, two Parliament Safety Service personnel, one CRPF Constable and a gardener and led to elevated tensions between India and Pakistan, ensuing within the 2001-2002 India-Pakistan standoff.
A complete of 5 terrorists, who infiltrated the Parliament in a automobile with Dwelling Ministry and Parliament labels, had been killed on December 13, 2001 assault.
Greater than 100 folks, together with main politicians, had been contained in the parliament constructing on the time. The gunmen used a faux id sticker on the automobile they drove and thus simply breached the safety deployed across the parliamentary advanced. The terrorists carried AK47 rifles, grenade launchers and pistols.
The gunmen drove their car into the automobile of Indian Vice President Krishan Kant (who was within the constructing on the time), acquired out, and commenced taking pictures. The Vice President’s guards and safety personnel shot again on the terrorists after which began closing the gates of the compound.
Indian safety companies and the Delhi Police officers mentioned that gunmen acquired directions from Pakistan and the operation was carried out below the steering of Pakistan’s Inter-Companies Intelligence (ISI) company. (ANI)
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