A two-day event took place at Dras in Ladakh from July 25 to July 26 to mark the 24th anniversary of the Kargil Vijay Diwas and the martyrdom of brave soldiers during the 1999 Kargil War
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The event began at the Lamochen viewpoint in Ladakh's Dras. War soldiers and the families of martyred soldiers attended the event
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Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi was the chief guest of the event. A cultural programme was also held in the presence of Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande
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Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande interacted with war veterans and gallantry award winners and felicitated the families of martyred soldiers
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559 lamps were lit by the people at Dras on the eve of Kargil Vijay Diwas. Each lamp was lit for a soldier martyred during Operation Vijay at the Veer Bhoomi
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On July 26, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reached Ladakh's Dras and laid a wreath at Kargil War Memorial to pay his tribute to martyred soldiers
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He also visited the Hut of Remembrance museum created to commemorate the Kargil soldiers
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Army Chief General Manoj Pande, Indian Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan and Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari also laid wreath at the war memorial
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PM Narendra Modi took to Twitter to pay tribute to the martyrs of the Kargil War. Here's what he wrote