Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 24: J&K Ex-Services League like every year is celebrating Accession Day and paying Homage to Brig Rajinder Singh, MVC “The Saviour of Kashmir” and recipient of first Gallantry Award of Independent India at Jammu on October 26, 2016.
This year Shradanjali is special as we are also paying homage to his comrades who had laid down their lives with him at Uri front while defending the State from October 23 to 27, 1947. We are also paying homage to 19 martyrs of 6 Bihar and 10 Dogra who were martyred on September 18, 2016 and also all the martyrs who have laid down their lives in J&K during the period from 26 Oct 2015 to 26 Oct 2016 which will become a regular feature from this year. Names of the martyrs of October 1947 will be engraved on a Marble Slab.
We appreciate Prime Minister’s advice while inaugurating the Shaurya Memorial in Bhopal that the Nation should salute the Soldiers wherever they are.
Maj Gen Goverdhan Singh Jamwal, President of the J&K Ex-Services League, has appealed to the members of the civil society and the veterans to celebrate the Accession Day by lighting candles wherever they are on October 26 and also join on 26th October 2016 at 10:30 am at Brig Rajinder Singh Chowk, Jammu to pay homage to Brig Rajinder Singh.
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