Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat lost his life in an accident when a Mi-17V5 helicopter carrying him to Wellington crashed midway in Tamil Nadu's Coonoor. He was accompanied by his wife, who too was killed in the tragic accident.
The senior-most armed forces officer, who had overseen strikes in Myanmar and the surgical strikes across the Line of Control, had been known to call out Pakistan and China several times over border disputes and the spread of terror. Here are his top quotes.
We are well prepared for any misadventure... Should they carry out a Galwan-like incident again, they will get it (back) in the same coin as they got last time," said Gen Rawat, referring to the violent skirmishes between Indian and Chinese soldiers at Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on June 15 last year.
