Kargil Vijay Diwas!!! Bas Itna Yaad Rahein Ek Saathi Aur Bhi Tha!!!

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             As in my last Blog Post, I have mentioned how 26th July is a black day for Mumbaikars as Mumbai lost 5000 lives because of Flood, I am here to tell a Historic Achievement of our country that was made on the very same date. The Kargil war that took place between May and July 1999 was finally won by Indian side on 26th July, 1999. This conflict between India and Pakistan is also known as Operation Vijay. The operation was conducted to clear the Kargil sector from the enemies. Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers and Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the LOC, which serves as the border between both the countries was the cause of the war. During the initial stages of the war, Pakistan accused the fighting completely on Kashmiris but the documents that were seized by casualties and later claims of Pakistan's PM showed involvement of Pakistani paramilitary forces. Our great INDIAN ARMY, with the support by Indian Air Force, in which my Late Chachaji- Mr. Dinesh Ruhela was also a part, recaptured majority of the positions on the Indian side of the LOC by Pakistanis. Later when the world started interfering, Pakistani forces withdrew from the fight and left the remaining Indian positions along the LOC. 

             The Pakistani intrusion in Kargil was reported by local shepherds on 3rd May,1999. Then, Indian Army patrol was sent. Five Indian soldiers were captured and tortured to death. The bombings from Pakistanis sabotaged ammunition dump in Kargil. Indian Air Force launched their air strikes against Pakistan's infiltrators on 26th May. IAF lost two fighters and then IAF MI-17 was shot down by Pakistan, killed four air crew. On 6th June, Indian army launched major offensive in Kargil. Indian Army re-captures two key positions in the Batalic sector. Indian Army secures Tololing in Dras, captures two vital posts, launches three attacks in Kargil and recaptures Tiger Hill after an 11-hour battle. On 7th June, India also recaptured Jubar Heights. On 11th, Pakistan started pulling out and India captured more peaks. On 14th July, PM A.B. Vajpayee declared Operation Vijay a successful mission and finally on 26th JULY 1999, all the Pakistani infiltrators were reported to be fled away from our areas. YIPPIE!!! 

              This is the 13th Year since the success of the OPERATION VIJAY. We Remember this day as "Kargil Vijay Diwas". Let's pay our homages to the 527 Indian Heroes whom we lost in the FIGHT. 

In all 527 soldiers from Indian Armed Forces sacrificed their lives during the war:

Lieutanant Col R.Vishwanathan

Major Ajay Singh Jasrotia

Major Kamlesh Prasad

Major Padmapani Acharya

Major Parmanand

Major Rajesh S. Adhikari

Major Vivek Gupta

Major Mariappan Saravanan

Captain Amit Bhardwaj

Captain Aditya Mishra

Captain Haneefuddin

Captain Jerry Premraj

Captain Jintu Gogoi

Captain Keishing Clifford Nongrum

Captain P.V.Vikram

Captain Vikram Batra

Captain Anuj Nayyar

Captain Amol Kalia

Lieutanant Amit Kaul

Lieutanant Neikezhakou Kengurusie

Lieutanant Sourav Kalia

Lieutanant Vijayant Thapar

LieutenantManoj Kumar Pandey

Deputy Commander Sukhbir Singh Yadav

Driver-Soldier Gopinath Moharana

Flight Engineer Raj Kishore Sahoo

Flight Lieutanant S Muhilan

Grenadier Amardeep

Grenadier Bajinder Singh

Grenadier Mohan Katha

Grenadier Munish Kumar

Grenadier Raj Kumar

Grenaidier Yogendera Singh Yadav

Havaldar Abdul Karim

Havaldar Beejay Singh

Havaldar Daler Singh Bahu

Havaldar Jai Prakash Singh

Havaldar Khazan Singh

Havaldar Padam Singh Dhama

Havaldar Ram Kumar

Havaldar Sarwan Singh Se

ngar Havaldar Surendra Singh

Havaldar Sultan Singh Narwari

s Havaldar Tan Bahadur Chhetri

Havaldar Tsweang Rigzin

Havaldar Yashvir Singh

Jawan Arvind Kumar Pandey

Lance Havaldar Ramkumar

Lance Havaldar Samandar Singh Hooda

Lance Naik Ahmed Ali

Lance Naik Balwan Singh

Lance Naik Bijender Singh

Lance Naik Eknath Khairnar

Lance Naik Gurmail Singh

Lance Naik Hera Singh

Lance Naik Keshan Singh

Lance Naik Madan Singh

Lance Naik Manas Ranjan Sahu

Lance Naik Om Prakash

Lance Naik Rakesh Chand

Lance Naik Ram Kumar Pradhan

Lance Naik Surianam Singh

Lance Naik Shankar Shinde

Lance Naik T.S.Jaswant Singh

Naik Anand singh

Naik Bharat Singh

Naik Birender Singh Lamba

Naik Buta Singh

Naik Chaman Singh

Naik Dharam Singh

Naik Ganesh Prasad Yadav

Naik Guardian Mekh Bahadur Gurung

Naik Jagat Singh

Naik Kasmir Singh

Naik Krishan Pal

Naik Mangat Singh

Naik Narayana Rao Desai

Naik Nirmal Singh

Naik R. Kamaraj

Naik Raj Kumar Punia

Naik Rakesh Chand

Naik Ram Swarup

Naik Sachidananda Malik

Naik Samunder Singh

Naik Shatrughan Singh

Naik Shiv Vasayya

Naik Surendra Singh

Naik Surendra Pal

Naik Surjeet Singh

Naik Subedar Lal Chand

Naik Vikram Singh

Naik Yoginder Singh

Rifleman Ansuya Prasad Dhayani

Rifleman Bachan Singh

Rifleman Dabal Singh

Rifleman Dilwar Singh

Rifleman Jaideep Singh

Rifleman Kuldeep Singh

Rifleman Linkon Pradhan

Rifleman Mohammed Aslam

Rifleman Mohammed Farid

Rifleman Rattan Chand

Rifleman Shaukat Hussain Kalgam

Rifleman Sunil Jungt Mahat

Rifleman Varinder Lal

Rifleman Vikram Singh

Rifleman Guardian Johar Singh

Rifleman Guardian Sarvan Kumar

Sergeant PVNR Prasad

Sergeant Raj Kishore Sahu

Sepoy Ajmer Singh

Sepoy Amardeep Singh

Sepoy Anil Kumar

Sepoy Arjun Ram

Sepoy Arvind Kumar Pandey

Sepoy Bajinder Singh

Sepoy Bhanwar Lal Bagaria

Sepoy Bhikaram

Sepoy Chara Nicholas

Sepoy Dharambir Singh

Sepoy Dineshkumar Vaghela

Sepoy Gangching Konyak

Sepoy Gazpal Singh

Sepoy Gopinath Mohrana

Sepoy Harendragiri Goswami

Sepoy Jugal Kishore

Sepoy Har Prasad

Sepoy Karan Singh

Sepoy Keolanand Dwivedi

Sepoy Kewal Anand

Sepoy Khem Raj

Sepoy Krishan Kumar

Sepoy Moola Ram

Sepoy Naresh Singh

Sepoy Pramod Kumar

Sepoy Rajinder

Sepoy Rajvir Singh

Sepoy Raswinder Singh

Sepoy Satvir Singh

Sepoy Satnam Singh

Sepoy Senthil

Sepoy Shaikh Mastan Wali

Sepoy Sheesh Ram

Sepoy Shiv Shankar Prasad Gupta

Sepoy Sukhwinder Singh

Sepoy Suresh Chhetri

Sepoy Suresh Kumar

Sepoy Varinder Kumar

Sepoy Vijaypal Singh

Signalman Rajan Sahu

Signalman Vinod Kumar

Subedar Bhanwar Lal

Subedar Harpaul Singh

Subedar Lal Singh

Subedar K. Medappa

Subedar Randhir Singh

Subedar Sumer Singh Rathore

Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja

Squadron Leader Rajiv Pundir

Squadron Leader Lal Singh

Squadron Leader Ojha

Zrfn Man Singh

Kaushal Yadav

Basavaraj Chougala

            May their soul rest in peace. They are the REAL HEROES. They fight on the border for us. Hence, we proudly announce that Pakistanis are loser or else they would have been ruling us now. We have already seen what few of them can do against us on 26/11 and other such bloody instances. So, a salute goes to our Indian soldiers, army, commandos and every bodyguard of our Mother India. :-)

    Thanks.

 ABHILASH RUHELA - VEERU- PROUD INDIAN