MT News Service
Jammu, December 7:
Members of Jammu and Kashmir Batwal Sabha today remembered their Indo-Pak War Hero Lance Naik Mohan Lal on his 53rd martyrdom day.
The said, we are proud of his bravery, as on the night of December 7, 1971 when he was manning the Medium Machine Gun (MMG), the enemy attacked with heavy artillery fire. Undeterred, he kept on firing at enemy halting its advance thereby enabling own troops to reorganise for a counter attack as a result of which the enemy was forced to retreat. Eventually, his dead body was found at his MMG post but in front of the bunker there were bodies of as many as nineteen enemies including a company commander thereof. For this brave act, he was posthumously conferred with Vir Chakra by the then President of India.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom, said Sabha’s General Secretary Mr R.L.Kaith.
Martyr Mohan Lal hailed from Village Ghulami Chack of Tehsil Jammu and belonged to Lakhotra clan of Batwal community.
