Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan will be in Andaman and Nicobar to participate in the celebrations with the troops deployed there. Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi will celebrate with naval troops in Porbandar, Gujarat, while Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Chief Marshal AP Singh will celebrate with troops in Jammu and Kashmir. In his first Diwali as Prime Minister, Modi visited Siachen, while the following year, he was in Amritsar in Punjab. In 2016, 2017 and 2018 he visited Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh, Gurez sector (Jammu and Kashmir) and Harsil in Uttarakhand respectively.
The country’s top defense officials, led by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, will celebrate Diwali with soldiers in different parts of the country on Thursday. lion and coming from Arunachal Pradesh Union Minister Kiren Rijiju arrived in Tawang in the northeastern state on Wednesday, on the eve of the festival of lights. There he will celebrate the festival with the soldiers deployed on the India-China border. The ministers are also accompanied by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Upendra Dwivedi. The tradition was started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been spending his Diwali with soldiers since coming to office in 2014.
Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan will be in Andaman and Nicobar to participate in the celebrations with the troops deployed there. Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi will celebrate with naval troops in Porbandar, Gujarat, while Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Chief Marshal AP Singh will celebrate with troops in Jammu and Kashmir. In his first Diwali as Prime Minister, Modi visited Siachen, while the following year, he was in Amritsar in Punjab. In 2016, 2017 and 2018 he visited Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh, Gurez sector (Jammu and Kashmir) and Harsil in Uttarakhand respectively.
In 2019, the Prime Minister was again in Jammu and Kashmir as he celebrated the festival with soldiers in Rajouri. Next year he was in Longewala, Rajasthan and in 2021 he was back in Jammu and Kashmir (Nowshera). He spent the next two Diwalis with the troops in Kargil in Ladakh and Lepcha in Himachal Pradesh respectively.