Vice President Mohd Hamid Ansari, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other parliamentarians today paid tributes to the martyrs of the 2001 attack on Parliament.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, veteran BJP leader L K Advani, Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha P J Kurien, Home minister Rajnath Singh, Finance minister Arun Jaitley, Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma were among those who paid floral tributes to the martyrs on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the attack.
The Prime Minister also met some of the martyr’s family members who were present. The Parliamentarians also observed silence in the honour of the martyrs. On December 13, 2001, five heavily-armed terrorists stormed the Parliament complex and opened indiscriminate fire, killing nine persons. The martyrs included five Delhi Police personnel, a woman Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) official, two Parliament watch and ward staff, and a gardener.