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President pays homage to personnel killed in Parliament attack

President K R Narayanan on Friday paid homage to the security personnel 'who by their vigilance, courage and timely action at the cost of their lives' averted terrorist attack on Parliament on December 13.

"Let us on this occasion remember and pay our homage to those security men of our Parliament, who by their vigilance, courage and timely action at the cost of their lives averted the terrorist attack to destroy our Parliament, the temple of Indian democracy and the symbol of our sovereignty," he said in his Republic Day eve address to the nation.

He said it was a coincidence that December 13 was the anniversary when Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru in 1946 moved in the Constituent Assembly the Objectives Resolution declaring the resolve of India to become an independent sovereign republic and outlining the democratic, secular and social fundamentals of the Constitution that India was to have.

"It is significant that it is the extraordinary courage and heroism of the ordinary security personnel at the Parliament House that saved the seat of our democracy against the dastardly terrorist attack," he said.

The president said, "While the country may rejoice in the success of the security personnel, let us remember that our safety and security is dependent on our common people like them, and it is for their interests and welfare that we should work from our imposing Parliament and government buildings."

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