Modi in Kargil to celebrate Diwali with soldiers

October 24, 2022 09:54

Continuing with his annual tradition of celebrating Diwali with soldiers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday arrived in Kargil.

Last year, Modi celebrated Diwali with soldiers in Nowshera, Jammu.

He had lauded the soldiers for serving on Indian borders and pointed out that security personnel were the suraksha kawach (armour) of the nation.

The prime minister further said that it is because of the soldiers that people can sleep peacefully.

In 2020, Modi while celebrating Diwali with soldiers at Longewala in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan had said that as long as the Indian soldiers are present, this country's Diwali celebrations would continue in full swing and be luminescent.

In 2019, the prime minister celebrated Diwali with soldiers in the Rajouri district along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

He had exchanged Diwali greetings with the Indian Air Force personnel at Pathankot Air Force Station.

In 2018, Modi had celebrated Diwali with jawans of the Indian Army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police, at Harsil in Uttarakhand.

Following that he had offered prayers at the Kedarnath shrine.

In 2017, the Prime Minister celebrated the festival of light with army soldiers and Border Security Force personnel in the Gurez Valley of Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district.

In 2016, he went to Himachal Pradesh to celebrate the festival with Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel at an outpost.

He visited the Punjab border to celebrate Diwali with soldiers in 2015.

In 2014, Prime Minister Modi spent Diwali in Siachen with soldiers. -- ANI

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