New Delhi | Amid bad weather President Ram Nath Kovind’s visit to Drass memorial was cancelled today due to bad weather.
Kovind who was supposed to celebrate Kargil Vijay Diwas at the Kargil memorial at Drass will now celebrate at Badami Bagh Cantonment in Srinagar. The fly past by the fighter aircraft that took part in the Kargil war, has also been called off due to bad weather at Drass.
Meanwhile, Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat and Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh paid tribute at Kargil War Memorial in Dras.
#WATCH Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat and Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh pay tribute at Kargil War Memorial in Dras on 20th #KargilVijayDiwas pic.twitter.com/0A6qagg1ZX
— ANI (@ANI) July 26, 2019
Expressing his gratitude towards the gallantry of the armed forces, President Ram Nath Kovind on his twitter account wrote,” On Kargil Vijay Diwas, a grateful nation acknowledges the gallantry of our Armed Forces on the heights of Kargil in 1999. We salute the grit and valour of those who defended India, and record our everlasting debt to those who never returned. Jai Hind!”
On Kargil Vijay Diwas, a grateful nation acknowledges the gallantry of our Armed Forces on the heights of Kargil in 1999.
We salute the grit and valour of those who defended India, and record our everlasting debt to those who never returned.
Jai Hind! #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) July 26, 2019
Referred as ‘Operation Vijay’ India on 26 July 1999 defeated Pakistan in an armed conflict in the Jammu and Kashmir’s Kargil Sector. The war between India and its age-old enemy Pakistan started in May 1999 and continued on for more than 60 days along the Line Of Control (LoC) till the 26th of July. They crossed the LoC and intruded 4-10 km into Indian territory and occupied 130 winter-vacated Indian posts. The war triggered when Pakistani soldiers impersonating Kashmiri militants penetrated into the Indian side of Kashmir.
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