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CDS Gen Bipin Rawat Laid To Rest With Full Military Honours

Dec 10, 2021 | Pratirodh Bureau

The funeral procession of India's Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat, who died in a helicopter crash, takes place in New Delhi on December 10, 2021 (Reuters)

India’s top general, Bipin Rawat, was cremated in New Delhi on Friday with full military honours, including a 17-gun salute, two days after he and 12 others died in a helicopter crash in southern India.

Rawat, India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), who led one of the world’s largest armed forces, and his entourage had been flying to a hillside military college on Wednesday when their helicopter came down in heavy fog.

Only one person survived the accident. The Indian Air Force has commissioned an inquiry into the incident.

Hundreds of soldiers escorted the carriage bearing the 63-year-old general’s body on its final journey through India’s capital. A dozen senior military officers had earlier kept a vigil while his body lay in state at his home.

Onlookers showered flowers on his coffin during the procession, and dozens holding the Indian flag ran alongside the carriage, some shouting “Hail mother India”.

The bodies of Rawat, his wife and 11 defence personnel who also died in the crash were brought to New Delhi late on Thursday, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others laid wreathes before the flag-draped coffins.

“India will never forget their rich contribution,” Modi said.

‘CLEAR-HEADED’

Modi had handpicked Rawat, a decorated general, as CDS in late 2019 with a mission to reorganise India’s army, air force and navy into a single, modern force with U.S.-style joint theatre commands.

Rawat’s death comes at a critical time for India, which is embroiled in a months-long standoff with China along parts of their shared border.

Tensions also remain high on India’s heavily-militarised frontier with arch-rival Pakistan, which New Delhi accuses of stoking an armed insurgency in disputed Kashmir.

“Clear-headed and plain-spoken, Gen. Rawat became India’s public face on China’s aggression,” said Brahma Chellaney, a specialist on India-China ties. “Filling the void won’t be easy.” (Reuters)

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