AMBALA: To mark ‘infantry day’, Kharga Corps Commander General JS Negi on Friday laid wreath at the war memorial in cantonment and paid tributes to the martyrs who had laid their lives in the service of the nation.
An army release said the infantry is the largest component of the Indian Army and has been manning the most difficult borders ranging from Arunachal Pradesh to Jammu and Kashmir, by braving the most extreme weather and eating dehydrated rations.
The release said on infantry day, a battalion of 1 SIKH had landed in Srinagar in 1947 to protect the valley from Pakistani Raiders. Kashmir was won by the Indian Army by pushing back the Pakistanis across the most difficult terrains in the world. The line where the winning streak of the Indian Army was stopped due to a UN-declared ceasefire is what we call as the ‘Line-of-Control’ (LOC), the released said.