New Delhi, Oct 19 Union Home Minister Amit Shah will pay homage to police personnel killed in the 1959 Ladakh ambush at the National Police Memorial on Wednesday, an official statement said on Monday.
Shah will preside over the Police Commemoration Day event, which will include a joint parade of Central Armed Police Forces and Delhi Police.
The minister will address the gathering and conclude the annual program observed in remembrance of 10 police personnel killed in an ambush by heavily armed Chinese troops at Hot Springs in Ladakh on October 21, 1959, by laying a wreath at the altar dedicated to them, it said.
Shah will also flag off a motorcycle rally themed “Fight Against Drugs” involving about 90 police riders from several states and union territories, central armed police forces and other central police organisations.
‘Fight Against Drugs’ is part of a nationwide initiative in which riders from across India will travel to Ekta Nagar in Gujarat to participate in the Ekta Parade on October 31, it said.
The riders from Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Central Reserve Police Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Border Security Force, Sashastra Seema Bal, Indo-Tibetan Border Police and National Security Guard, along with the Railway Protection Force, National Disaster Response Force and National Investigation Agency will participate in the rally.
The program will be attended by the Union minister of state for home affairs, lawmakers with police backgrounds, heads of central armed police forces and central police organisations, retired police chiefs, police officers and other dignitaries.
Commemorative activities will continue at the memorial from October 22 to 30, with officials organising visits by family members of the deceased personnel, police band performances, motorcycle rallies, a Run for Martyrs, blood donation camps, essay and painting competitions for children, and screenings of films highlighting police personnel’s service, courage and sacrifice.
Similar programs will be held by police forces across the country during the same period.
(PTI News)
