50 YEARS OF AMAR JAWAN JYOTI WILL BE PUT OUT TODAY
(The Quiver) :The “eternal flame”- Amar Jawan Jyoti present at India Gate will be put out after 50 years. It was built by British in the memory of soldiers of the British Indian Army who died in World War-I. The Amar Jawan Jyoti was placed under the India Gate in 1971, when the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government was in power.
The Amar Jawan Jyoti will be put out after 50 years, but will not be extinguished but it will be merged with the torch at the National war Memorial in a ceremony today. The government’s clarification comes regarding the spread of misinformation of eternal flame will be completely extinguished. As Quoted by the Indian Government sorces, “”The flame of the Amar Jawan Jyoti is not being extinguished. It is being merged with the flame at the National War Memorial. It was an odd thing to see that the flame at Amar Jawan Jyoti paid homage to the martyrs of the 1971 and other wars but none of their names are present there”.
As clarified government sources that the names inscribed on the India Gate are those who fought for the British in the World War-I and Anglo Afghan War, describing it as “a symbol of our colonial past”.
The sources argued that the names of Indian soldiers who died in wars after Independence, including the 1971 war, are engraved at the National War Memorial. “It is a true shraddhanjali (tribute) to have the flame paying tribute to martyrs there”.
Targeting Opposition leaders who have slammed the government on the move, the government sources said it is “ironic that people who did not make a National War Memorial for 7 decades are now making a hue and cry when a permanent and fitting tribute is being made to our martyrs”.
