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We Must Give Him A Good Farewell, A Smiling Send-Off Brigadier Lidder’s Wife Bid Him Tearful Goodbye

Mumbai: Brigadier Lakhwinder Singh Lidder’s wife Geetika Lidder and daughter Aashna Lidder said goodbye to him at the Brar crematorium in Delhi this morning.

In a touching video of the scene, Aashna is seen crying with her mother Geetika as she places a bunch of rose petals on her father’s coffin.

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“I am going to be 17. So he was with me for 17 years, we will go ahead with happy memories. It’s a national loss. My father was a hero, my best friend. Maybe it was destined and better things will come our way. He was my biggest motivator,” Aashna Lidder said.

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Geetika Lidder said that he should be given a smiling send-off. “We must give him a good farewell, a smiling send-off, I am a soldier’s wife. It’s a big loss,” she said.

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Earlier, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar on Friday paid floral tributes at the body of Lidder, who died along with 12 others in a military helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu. Brigadier Lidar’s body was kept at Berar Square in Delhi Cantonment before his cremation.

A second generation Army officer, Brigadier Lidder was soon to be promoted to Major General and was preparing for his next posting after serving as a key member in General Rawat’s team for over a year.

Chief of Defence Staff Gen Rawat, his wife Madhulika, Brig Lidder and 10 other armed forces personnel were killed in the Mi-17V5 helicopter crash near Coonoor on Wednesday, in one of the biggest air accidents in India in decades involving senior military officers.

 

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