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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and several other leaders and ministers reached the old Parliament building and paid their tributes to the fallen Jawans on the 22 years of the Parliament Attack. Among the leaders who paid tribute besides PM Modi and Amit Shah were Lok Sabha Speaker OM Birla, BJP national president JP Nadda and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.

Several leaders of Congress including party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, and other leaders were also present on the occasion to pay their tributes.

PM Modi also spoke to the family members of the Jawans who sacrificed their lives in the Parliament attack on December 13, 2001.

PM Modi interacting with family members of fallen heroes (ANI image)

What Happened In December 2001?

On December 13, 2001, Jagdish, Matbar, Kamlesh Kumari; Nanak Chand and Rampal, Assistant Sub-Inspectors, Delhi Police; Om Prakash, Bijender Singh and Ghanshyam, Head Constables in Delhi Police; and Deshraj, a gardener, CPWD, had sacrificed their lives while defending the Parliament against the terrorist attack.

The attackers were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)-- two Pakistan-raised terrorist organisations. They attacked the Parliament, causing the deaths of five Delhi Police personnel, two Parliament Security Service personnel, one CRPF Constable and a gardener and led to increased tensions between India and Pakistan, resulting in the 2001-2002 India-Pakistan standoff.

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A total of five terrorists, who infiltrated the Parliament in a car with Home Ministry and Parliament labels, were killed in the December 13, 2001 attack.

At the time when the incident took place, over 100 people, including major politicians, were inside the parliament building at the time. The gunmen used a fake identity sticker on the car they drove and thus easily breached the security deployed around the parliamentary complex. The terrorists carried AK47 rifles, grenade launchers and pistols.

(With ANI inputs)