Vajra Corps celebrates 75th Infantry Day

Jalandhar, October 27, 2021: To commemorate the selfless dedication to duty by Indian Army’s gallant Infantrymen, Vajra Corps celebrated the 75th Infantry Day with pride and honour.  In a solemn ceremony, Major General Sanjay Maini, Chief of Staff, Vajra Corps, laid a wreath at ‘Vajra Shaurya Sthal’ in Jalandhar Cantt in the honour of brave martyrs who have made supreme sacrifice for the Nation.

    Indian Army celebrates 27th October each year as Infantry Day to commemorate the induction of troops into Srinagar and saving of J&K in its first armed conflict with Pakistan post independence. On this day in 1947, the leading elements of the Indian Army landed at Srinagar airfield and gallantly fought the Pakistani invaders led by Pak Army regulars.

    This ultimate resoluteness and extraordinary courage by the Indian Army and indomitable spirit displayed by the Infantrymen reversed the tide of events and thwarted Pakistan Army’s ill conceived designs.