Pulwama Terror Attack: PM Modi pays tribute to Martyr Jawans at Palam airport

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid floral tributes to the martyr jawans, who lost their lives in Pulwama terror attack, during the Wreath-laying ceremony held at the Palam Airport here on Friday.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi paid floral tributes to the mortal remains of martyrs.

Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa also paid their tributes.

An operative of the JeM group crashed a car bomb into a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Pulwama district on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway on Thursday, killing 40 Indian Army Jawans and making it the worst ever attack on security forces on any single day since a separatist campaign broke out in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989.

Assam Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal announced Rs. 20 lakh to the family of martyr Moneswar Basumatary who was killed in the terror attack in Pulwama, Kashmir on February 14

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has announced a compensation of Rs. 50 lakh for the family of the jawans who lost their lives in the Pulwama attack.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has announced a government job to kin of the four Pulwama martyred CRPF soldiers from the state, along with Rs 12 lakh of financial assistance to each family.