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”Did you know during 2004-2009 Cong-led UPA did not celebrate or honor Kargil Vijay Diwas on July 26 till I insisted in Parliament,” he said in a tweet, sharing copies of his motion in Rajya Sabha in 2009.
He had written in the motion that the members who oppose the celebration on the ground that it was a ”BJP war” should stop this mockery. ”It is our duty to our nation to memorialise these sacrifice and duty,” he had said. The Kargil War was fought in 1999 when the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government was in power.
”It was only after my persistent demand that the then Defence Minister A K Antony started the tradition of laying a wreath on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas from 2010,” the BJP member said.
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Chandrasekhar has long been associated with pro-security forces causes and had been a keen votary of war memorials in Delhi and Bengaluru.