Indo-Tibetan Border Police Jawans Have fun Diwali At -20 Levels In Ladakh
Diwali 2020: Squaddies of Indo Tibetan Border Pressure celebrated Diwali at a peak of 17,000 ft in Ladakh
New Delhi:
Squaddies of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) celebrated Diwali at a peak 17,000 ft in sub-zero temperatures of Ladakh. Jawans of the paramilitary drive guard the rustic’s 2,488-km-long de-factor border with China, or the Line of Exact Keep an eye on.
The ITBP infantrymen did puja, lit diyas, adopted by way of celebratory dancing at a put up in Ladakh the place the temperature is minus 20 level Celcius. The temperature right here even is going all the way down to minus 40 levels as wintry weather units in.
The warriors additionally sang former High Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s vintage composition ‘Aao Phir Phir Diya Jalaaen’, and devoted it to the country at the instance of Diwali.
#ITBP jawans have fun #Diwali at 17000 ft in #Ladakh the place temperature is minus 20 levels ! pic.twitter.com/4YGuMQk2lA
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On Friday, High Minister Narendra Modi had appealed to the country to mild a diya, a standard earthen lamp, on Diwali for the warriors guarding India’s borders.
“This Diwali, allow us to additionally mild a Diya as a salute to infantrymen who fearlessly give protection to our country. Phrases cannot do justice to the sense of gratitude we’ve got for our infantrymen for his or her exemplary braveness. We also are thankful to the households of the ones at the borders,” PM Modi had tweeted.
Proceeding his custom of spending Diwali with infantrymen, PM Narendra Modi arrived in Jaisalmer’s iconic Longewala lately, the place he hit out at China’s “expansionist” forces that display a “distorted mindset which belongs to the 18th century”.
The remark comes an afternoon after 11 other folks, together with 5 infantrymen, have been killed in ceasefire violations by way of Pakistani troops in different spaces of northern J&Okay.
Closing 12 months, the High Minister visited J&Okay’s Rajouri district to have fun Diwali with infantrymen guarding the Line of Keep an eye on. Earlier than that, he has spent the competition of lighting fixtures with infantrymen in Uttarakhand’s India-China border, north Kashmir’s Gurez sector, ITBP put up in Himachal Pradesh, Indo-Pak border in Punjab, and Ladakh’s Siachen.
