NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, JULY 26
Floral tributes were paid to fallen soldiers at the war memorials in Chennai and at neighbouring Puducherry on Sunday on the 21st anniversary of the nation’s victory over Pakistan in the Kargil war.
கார்கில் வெற்றி தினத்தை முன்னிட்டு, சென்னையில் உள்ள போர் நினைவிடத்தில், தென்மண்டல ராணுவ தலைமை அதிகாரி மேஜர் ஜெனரல் பிரகாஷ் சந்திரா அஞ்சலி செலுத்துகிறார்.#KargilVijayDivas #CourageInKargil #kargilheros #KargilVijayDiwas2020 @DefenceMinIndia @SpokespersonMoD pic.twitter.com/EQ4ZmwFtpZ
— PIB in Tamil Nadu (@pibchennai) July 26, 2020
Major General Prakash Chandra, Chief Staff Officer, Head Quarters, Dakshin Bharat Area, placed a wreath at the war memorial on Kamaraj Salai in Chennai in honour of the fallen soldiers and felicitated Kargil veterans in a separate function.
In Puducherry, Lt Governor Kiran Bedi, Chief Minister V Narayanasamy and Speaker V P Sivakozhndhu paid tributes at the Kargil War memorial on Beach Road.
The Kargil war, in which the country lost more than 500 soldiers, was declared over on July 26, 1999, after Indian soldiers pushed back Pakistani troops, a bulk of them drawn from the neighbouring country’s Northern Light Infantry, from the captured peaks in Kargil.
The day is observed as ”Kargil Vijay Diwas” to commemorate India’s victory over Pakistan.
