SS Bisht, the father of Major Chitresh Bisht – who lost his life while defusing an IED in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nowshera sector – welcomed the air strikes on terror camps across the LoC on Tuesday, 26 February.
“I salute the pilots who carried out the attack. But this should have happened a long time ago, there has been some delay in carrying out such an attack, due to which many brave soldiers were martyred. Now, this strike should happen continuously, so that they understand that the Indian Army is prepared to answer on all fronts.”SS Bisht, as told to ANI
The Army Major was killed in an IED blast in Rajouri’s Nowshera sector in Jammu and Kashmir, two days after the Pulwama terror attack.
Major Bisht, 31, was supposed to get married on 7 March. He was to return home on 28 February for wedding preparations.
‘Armed Forces Should Fight Pakistan Together’
“We did get satisfaction, but real satisfaction will come when there is an investigation against Pakistan and they are taught that they cannot conduct such attacks against India in the future. I want that all the armed forces together to fight Pakistan so that our country is safe in the future.”SS Bisht, as told to ANI
According to reports, the Indian Air Force’s Mirage 2000 fighter jets dropped 1,000 kg bombs across the LoC to target the "biggest training camp of JeM in Balakot.” The air strike came 12 days after the deadly Pulwama attack, in which 40 CRPF jawans were killed.
Speaking about his son’s death, SS Bisht, a retired police officer, said that it was unlikely that any ordinary person could have planted the landmine.
“The way they (Pakistan) always asks for proof, what more proof can be there than this?The IED which he was trying to defuse, nobody but an Army officer could have pulled it off. My son was a trained and talented engineer, and he was extremely skilled in his work. Despite this he came in the range. So, this means that no ordinary people could have planted the IED. This has to be the work of their engineers, couldn’t be done by anybody else. There is no bigger proof than this (sic),” the martyr’s father said.
Major Chitresh Bisht’s was cremated on 18 February with full state honours in Dehradun, with thousands gathering at the funeral procession that began from his Nehru Colony house.
Bisht was leading a bomb disposal squad team when mines were detected in Nowshera. While one bomb was defused successfully, the officer was grievously injured while neutralising the second one.
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