Stage set for tomorrow’s polling in high profile Udhampur LS seat amid high security
Jammu and Kashmir has five Lok Sabha constituencies and each one will go to polls in separate phases because of security reasons.
In a solemn and poignant ceremony held on Saturday at the Public Relations Office, Badami Bagh (BB) Cantonment, Srinagar, all ranks of the Public Relations Office, paid rich tributes to Late Major P Purushottam and five brave soldiers who attained martyrdom in a ‘fidayeen’ (terrorist) attack on this day in 1999.
Late Major P Purushottam, who was posted as Public Relations Officer (Defence) alongwith five of his comrades bravely fought terrorists who had launched a ‘fidayeen’ attack on his office in the evening of 3 November 1999. Having been engaged in a hand to hand fight with the terrorists, he and his colleagues made the supreme sacrifice of their lives while trying to save media persons.
On this occasion a wreath was laid by Col Rajesh Kalia, PRO (Def) Srinagar on behalf of the media fraternity at the memorial in Public Relations Office, Srinagar.
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