Political parties pay homage to CDS General Bipin Rawat in Chandigarh

Chandigarh, December 9

Cutting across party lines, all leaders of all political parties today avoided campaigning for the Municipal Corporation (MC) poll and paid homage to the departed soul, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat.

The BJP organised a tribute ceremony at the party headquarters in Sector 33 where city president Arun Sood and Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma, along with others, offered floral tributes to the CDS. Sood said General Bipin Rawat raised the Army’s morale and nation and made all proud.

Senior Deputy Mayor and Ward No. 2 BJP candidate Maheshinder Singh Sidhu paid tribute to the General, his wife and other fellow officers, who died in a chopper crash in Tamil Nadu, at the Sector 3 war memorial.

Other BJP candidates Heera Negi, Jasmanpreet Singh, Sachin Lotia, Ravinder Rawat, Davesh Modgil, Anoop Gupta and Shakti Devshali also paid tributes to General Rawat at their respective offices and observed two minutes silence.

Cong leaders, including city president Subhash Chawla, national spokesperson Alka Lamba and coordinator Rajinder Rana also paid floral tributes to the CDS at the Sector 35 party’s office. Meanwhile, Congress candidates, including Balwinder Kaur, Harpreet Kaur, Dheeraj Gupta and Harmohinder Singh Lucky, took out a candle light march.

AAP candidates, along with party co-incharge Pradeep Chhabra and convener Prem Garg, paid homage to the CDS in different wards today. SAD candidate Hardeep Singh, along with his supporters, also lit candles in memory of the CDS.—TNS

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