{"id":172513,"date":"2021-09-23T02:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=172513"},"modified":"2021-09-23T02:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:17:04","slug":"jr-defence-minister-visits-tawang-pays-tribute-to-martyrs-at-war-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/jr-defence-minister-visits-tawang-pays-tribute-to-martyrs-at-war-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Jr defence minister visits Tawang, pays tribute to martyrs at War Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, 22 Sep:<\/strong> Junior Defence Minister Ajay Bhatt on Wednesday paid tributes to the martyrs at the War Memorial here after receiving the Swarnim Vijay Mashaal or the Victory Flame that symbolizes India&#8217;s victory over Pakistan in 1971.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bhatt also interacted with the jawans of the Indian Army near the war memorial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have interacted with our jawans in forward locations today, their spirit is very high,&#8221; the defence minister told the media persons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also lauded the civil-military relations in Tawang and said: &#8220;Wherever there is the Indian Army, they always keep good relations with the civil population and always extend their helping hands whenever needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They should cooperate with each other in developmental activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interacting with the NCC cadets, the minister said: &#8220;You should be ready to serve your nation. The future of this country lies on your shoulder.&#8221; He also encouraged the NCC cadets to join the Indian Army.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local MLA Tsering Tashi briefed the defence minister and the GOC Eastern Command on joint land re-assessment and about the meeting held under the chairmanship of the chief minister on the same matter here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the defence minister, along with the senior officers of the Indian Army paid their tributes to the martyrs at Jaswant Garh and Bumla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the afternoon, the minister and senior officers visited Tawang Monastery and offered their prayers. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAWANG, 22 Sep: Junior Defence Minister Ajay Bhatt on Wednesday paid tributes to the martyrs at the War Memorial here after receiving the Swarnim Vijay Mashaal or the Victory Flame that symbolizes India&#8217;s victory over Pakistan in 1971. Bhatt also interacted with the jawans of the Indian Army near the war memorial. &#8220;I have interacted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}