New Delhi: Param Vir Chakra recipient Captain Bana Singh (retd) joined Congress chief Rahul Gandhi because the Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Jammu and Kashmir (J&Ok) Friday.
Referring to Captain Singh because the “Param Vir Chakra recipient who hoisted the Tricolour on Siachen’s icy heights”, Gandhi took to Twitter to post a picture of himself strolling beside the struggle veteran.
Captain Singh responded to the gesture by thanking him, earlier than signing off with “Jai Hind”.
The three,570-km foot march by the Congress will conclude in Srinagar on 30 January. With Gandhi on the helm, the yatra started in Kanyakumari on 8 September final yr.
“बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद” @RahulGandhi Ji
Jai Hind 🇮🇳🙏🏻 https://t.co/zjuPQ8g5AY
— Captain Bana Singh Param Vir Chakra (@banasinghpvc) January 20, 2023
Captain Bana Singh served within the 8th Jammu & Kashmir Mild Infantry (JAK LI) and performed a central function in ‘Operation Rajiv’ — Indian armed forces’ recapture of ‘Quaid Submit’, a crucial peak in Siachen, from Pakistani troopers in June 1987. For his bravery and braveness through the operation, Singh was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest wartime gallantry medal. Furthermore, the recaptured put up was renamed ‘Bana Prime’ in his honour.
Skilled on the Excessive-Altitude Warfare College in Gulmarg, he was posted in Siachen in April of that yr.
Singh made headlines final June with a tweet criticising the central authorities’s Agnipath scheme for military recruitment. Whereas the tweet was deleted inside 48 hours, Singh had instructed ThePrint then, “There ought to’ve been extra debate earlier than bringing within the Agnipath.”
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Displayed ‘indomitable braveness’
Singh enlisted within the Indian Military in 1969 and was connected to the eighth battalion of the Jammu & Kashmir Mild Infantry (JAKLI), an infantry regiment.
Born to a farming household in Jammu’s Kadyal village, Singh had instructed scholar Claude Arpi in an interview that his uncles had additionally served within the military.
Singh was serving as a Naib Subedar in June 1987 when ‘Quaid Submit’ was recaptured by a celebration of 64, together with him, led by Main Varinder Singh, a month after a recce social gathering of the Indian Military had been severely wounded there by Pakistani forces.
The social gathering needed to climb 1,500 toes of ice-wall on the sting of a glacier to achieve the crucial put up, and Singh performed a key function in guiding them and making certain the success of ‘Operation Rajiv’.
His Param Vir Chakra (PVC) quotation famous that Bana Singh impressed his males by displaying “indomitable braveness and management”.
The quotation added that Singh, through the course of recapturing the put up, moved from trench to trench, lobbed hand grenades, charged on the enemy with a bayonet, and engaged in fist-to-fist fight.
“He cleared the put up of all intruders,” the quotation stated.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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