Family members of Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat have planned to take his ashes to Haridwar on Saturday after completion of cremation rituals in Delhi, his daughter said on Friday.”After the cremation today at Delhi Cantonment’s crematorium, we will be taking his ‘asthi’ (ashes) to Haridwar tomorrow,” General Rawat’s younger daughter Tarini said.General Rawat, 63, his wife Madhulika Rawat, and 11 other defence personnel were killed when a Mi17V5 helicopter carrying them crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.Tarini, along with her elder sister Kritika, on Friday afternoon performed traditional rituals at their home, before the mortal remains of their parents — General Rawat and Madhulika Rawat — were moved to carriages for taking them to the crematorium.The sisters, stood in sombre silence next to the mortal remains of their father and mother, as a large number of visitors, including dignitaries, continued to stream in at the official bungalow of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), since morning.Jaipur-based Vijay Rawat, 60, younger brother of General Rawat, and a former Army officer, said, “I had spoken to him before he went to Tamil Nadu to attend the function at Wellington. Had never thought, fate would take him away from us”.”We will be taking his ashes, after cremation, to Haridwar tomorrow. We family members will be going to the holy town to immerse his ‘asthi’ (ashes) into the Ganga river,” he said. With PTI inputs
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