Nimrat Kaur Visits Her Father's Memorial In Kashmir, Remembers His 'Sacrifice' In Long Note

Actress Nimrat Kaur recently visited her father, Major Bhupender Singh’s memorial in Kashmir on his 73rd birth anniversary. A year ago, her father’s life journey was immortalised at his birthplace in Rajasthan,

and within a year, a new memorial has now been inaugurated in Kashmir, a location where he was martyred. Therefore, the visit to the memorial in Kashmir left Nimrat emotional. She shared a series of glimpses from her visit on her social media and also penned a warm note.

She wrote, “A year ago today, on Papa’s birth anniversary, his life’s journey was immortalised at his birthplace, Mohanpura, Rajasthan by the Indian Army in recognition of his service to the nation. What we didn’t know then was that within a year, we would witness a further cementing of that dream on the soil where he was martyred.”

“Mamma and I had the honour of visiting both his memorial in Beacon in Srinagar Cantonment and the first glimpse of the Kashmir valley after Banihal Tunnel decicated to him called Titanic View Point on NH 44, where Papa last served as an officer and where we spent our last days together as a family,” the actress added.

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Further, Nimrat thanked the Border Roads Organisation for their efforts from inception to execution, and stated, “The transcendent quality of this entire experience, seeing his form and name immortalised is something words can never accurately describe.”

Remembering her father on his 73rd birth anniversary, the actress looked back at his sacrifice and wrote, “Papa’s sacrifice left behind a lifelong legacy of goodwill for our family. A slogan he lived and died by comes to mind, Agrani Ajay — a true Bengal Sapper’s war cry. Happy birthday, Papa…♥️”

Previously, in an interview with ETimes, Nimrat talked about her father’s death and shared, “We were on our winter vacation in January 1994 and visiting our father in Kashmir, when the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen kidnapped him from his place of work and after seven days, terminated him. They had made some ridiculous demands of some terrorists to be released that he obviously did not agree to. He was just 44 when he died. We got the news and flew back with his body to Delhi, and I saw his body for the first time only in Delhi.”

Nimrat Kaur’s father was also posthumously awarded the Shaurya Chakra after he sacrificed his life resisting militants in Kashmir on 23rd January 1994.