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Gautam Gambhir Posts Strong Message After Tawang Air Crash

By Prince

Updated - 27 May 2019, 02:04 PM

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Showing his support for the Indian soldiers once again, discarded India opener Gautam Gambhir posted a strong message on Twitter after some heartbreaking pictures showing the bodies of the seven military personnel wrapped in cardboard pieces went viral. The soldiers were martyred in an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter crash at an altitude of nearly 17,000 feet in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh on Friday (October 6).

Citizens across the country have been fuming after seeing the bodies of the soldiers wrapped in plastic sacks and tied up in cartons that look like wrapped electronics material. Gambhir, who never shies away from throwing his support behind the soldiers, was also infuriated with the incident as he took to Twitter to vent his anger.

“IAF क्रैश के शहीदों के शव…शर्मनाक! माफ़ करना ऐ दोस्त, जिस कपड़े से तुम्हारा कफ़न सिलना था वो अभी किसी का बंद गला सिलने के काम आ रहा है !!!, (IAF crash’s martyrs’ bodies.. shameful! Please forgive us friends, the clothes that were meant to wrap your bodies are now being used to make formal suits),” he tweeted.

Former Northern Army Commander Lt Gen HS Panag also tweeted pictures of the bodies of the military personnel wrapped in cardboard pieces and wrote: “Seven young men stepped out into the sunshine yesterday, to serve their motherland. India. This is how they came.”

Meanwhile, this is not the first time that Gambhir has shown his support for the army men. Not only does he regularly support them with his tweets but he also tries to help them as much possible for him. Earlier this year, he had pledged to bear the full expenses of the children of 25 CRPF personnel killed by Maoists in Chhattisgarh.

“On Wednesday morning, I picked up newspapers and saw gut-wrenching pictures of the daughters of two CRPF men killed in the latest attacks. One was saluting her martyred father while in the other picture, the howling young woman was being consoled by her relative,” he had written in his column for Hindustan Times at that time.

“The Gautam Gambhir Foundation will take care of the entire education expenses of the children of these martyrs. My team has already started work on this and I shall soon share the progress we have made,” he had added.

Last month too, he pledged to bear the full expenses of the martyred police officer Abdul Rashid’s daughter.

 

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