Sarhad ko Swaranjali

                                                     Sarhad ko Swaranjali



Nov 19, 7:02 pm

Itanagar, Nov. 19 (ANI): Ninety-year-old Leela Devi, the mother of martyred rif leman Jaswant Singh
Rawat, has said she would lead the Sharhad ko Swaranajali f unction at the Indira Gandhi Park here on
November 24.
Devi, accompanied by her relatives Vijay Singh Rawat, 58, Madhubala, 47 and Amit Rawat, 23, would arrive here on November 24 f rom Dehradun. They would f ly to Guwahati and a special helicopter would then bring them to Itanagar, according to organising committee president Kipa Babu.
Every word of the proud mother would be a louder message f or the soldiers serving the motherland in
harshest co ndition along the Indo-China border and boost their morale to continue their duty. It would be
rarest occasion when the mother salutes her brave son who sacrif iced his lif e 51 years ago.
Besides the proud mother of Rawat, who had changed the course of 1962 Chinese aggression by halting
the advance of Chinese soldiers f or 72 hours bef ore sacrif icing his lif e, Shaktiman f amed Mukesh Khanna,Lt Gen (retd) G M Patil who was posted in Tawang during the war, f lutists Rajendra Prasanna and PanditKetan Joshi, besides Chanaykya serial producer Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, Hindustani classical exponent Nagraj Havaldar, Dagar Bandhu Nasif f udin and Hanif uddin, painter and singer Satya Narayan Maurya, Manipuri bamboo dance expert Gauri Kishore Sarma, Bhojpuri singer Manoj Tiwari, world-known portrait expert Basudev Kamat and cine artist Pranjal Saikia, 600 representatives f rom seven north east states, about 10,000 locals, including 400 dancers and singers of host state would take part in the mega event to begin at 10. 30a.m. to pay rich tributes to the brave hearts who had sacrif iced their lives while guarding the f rontier.
'Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon', the chorus by 10,000 students would rent the air besides numerous patriotic
programmes as part of the event, organised by Sanskar Bhrati Poorvotar.
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ITANAGAR, Nov 24:
Arunachal Pradesh is the nation's “sentinel of the east”, and its people are patriotic and “jealously guarding
the territorial integrity of the country”, Chief Minister Nabam Tuki said today.
“Sitting on the lap of the Himalayas, we are the f irst to resist any f orce against India. If any enemy eyes
India through North East, Arunachal Pradesh will stand against it f irst, like in the 1962 Sino-India war,” he
told the valedictory programme of the three-day 'Sarhad ko Swaranjali' organized by North East unit of
Sansakar Bharati at Indira Gandhi Park here.
Tuki announced that the Government would set-up a Martyrs’ Memorial in the state capital Itanagar in
memory of those soldiers killed while f ighting the invading Chinese army in 1962. He said Itanagar, which
was established as the state capital af ter 1962, owes its respect to the Martyrs who sacrif iced their lives
f or the sovereignty of the country and territorial integrity of Arunachal Pradesh.
Tuki paid rich tributes to the martyrs of the 1962 war and acknowledged the exemplary services rendered by
the Indian soldiers along the international boundaries that the state shares with neighboring countries. He
remembered martyr Jaswant Singh Rawat, hero of the Indo-China war, as a true son of the soil and said
Arunachal Pradesh as well as the whole country will always remain gratef ul f or his ultimate sacrif ice.
Felicitating wheel-chair bound Leela Devi, 94- year-old mother of martyr Jaswant Singh, who came all the
way f rom Dehradun to attend the programme as the Chief Guest, Tuki expressed gratef ulness on behalf of
the people of the state.
“Your setting f oot on the soil of Arunachal Pradesh has f urthered the sanctity of the land of the dawnlitmountains,where your brave son laid down his lif e f ighting the enemy. I salute the mother, who sacrif icedher beloved son f or this land,” he said.