- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (4) arrived in Nowshera sector in Rajouri district of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir along the Line of Control in northern India to celebrate the occasion of Diwali with soldiers.
Modi praised the soldiers for carrying out the surgical strike across the Pakistan border and said that it fills everyone with pride.
He also said that the country has been giving a befitting reply to those attempting to disturb the peace in the region. “It fills every Indian with pride on the role this brigade played during the surgical strike,” Modi said.
Last year, Modi said while celebrating the festival with light with soldiers at Longewala in Jaisalmer in the western state of Rajasthan that as long as Indian soldiers are present, this country’s Diwali celebrations would continue in full swing and be luminescent.
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In 2019, too, the prime minister had celebrated Diwali with soldiers in the Rajouri district. He had called the soldiers as his family and praised them for guarding the borders even during festivals.
He also exchanged Diwali greetings with the Indian Air Force personnel at Pathankot Air Force Station.
In 2018, the prime minister had celebrated Diwali with jawans of the Indian Army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) at Harsil in the district of Uttarakhand. After that, he offered prayers at the Kedarnath shrine.
In 2017, the prime minister celebrated the festival of light with soldiers and Border Security Force personnel in the Gurez Valley of Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir.
In 2016, the prime minister went to Himachal Pradesh to celebrate the festival with ITBP personnel at an outpost.
Modi has been meeting soldiers on Diwali, ever since he was the chief minister of Gujarat.
(Agency inputs)
