Srinagar
\nFor the fourth consecutive year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Diwali with soldiers, this time near the Line of Control (LoC) in the landlocked Gurez area of Bandipore district in north Kashmir on<\/p>\n
Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister, accompanied by Army Chief General Bipin Rawat and Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Devraj Anbu, interacted with Army and BSF jawans at the Brigade Headquarters of the Army at<\/p>\n
Dawar, 140 km from here.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur forces protect our motherland with utmost valour, displaying highest traditions of sacrifice and dedication\u201d, the Prime Minister wrote on Twitter after spending two hours with the soldiers. This is for the<\/p>\n
fourth consecutive year since he took over that the Prime Minister joined the armed forces on Diwali, two of these in Jammu and Kashmir. He first celebrated Diwali with troops at Siachen in 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe exchanged sweets and interacted. Happy to know that jawans practice yoga regularly,\u201d Modi said, adding that this would help them while serving the country\u2019s borders and become yoga trainers after<\/p>\n
their retirement.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister after celebrating the festival with the troops tweeted: \u201cGlad to have celebrated Diwali with our brave Army, BSF jawans in the Gurez valley\u2026.\u201d He further tweeted that spending time with<\/p>\n
jawans \u201cgives me new energy\u201d and he loved to celebrate the festival with them as he considered them his family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar For the fourth consecutive year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Diwali with soldiers, this time near the Line of Control (LoC) in the landlocked Gurez area of Bandipore district in north Kashmir on Thursday. The Prime Minister, accompanied by Army Chief General Bipin Rawat and Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Devraj Anbu, interacted with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8098,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions\/8098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}