Martyred Lance Naik Sandeep Thapa cremated with full military honors

The dead body of Lance Naik Sandeep Thapa, the braveheart of the Indian Army, had been brought by air to the Jolly Grant Airport. The dead body was thereafter taken to his village Rajawala, in Siraspur district of Dehradun, Garhwal, Uttarakhand. He was martyred at the LOC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Naoshera Sector in Rajouri.

Hundreds of people from the nearby villages and Dehradun, Rishikesh reached his house. They paid their last respects to the martyred Sandeep Thapa. This was amidst raising of pro-Sandeep Thapa and anti-Pakistan slogans. ‘Sandeep Thapa Amar Rahe’ and ‘Pakistan Murdabad’ slogans rented the air for hours together when the 35-year-old martyr’s body, fully draped in tricolour and flowers were placed at his house in Rajawala, Siraspur, Dehradun. The nearby villagers had started thronging the martyr’s village right from the morning after they heard about the supreme sacrifice of Sandeep Thapa yesterday. The crowd today swelled in large numbers outside his house to pay their heartfelt tributes to this great son of the soil.

Prominent amongst those who laid wreaths at the body of the martyred soldier were the chief minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat, his several cabinet colleagues, lawmakers of Uttarakhand and bureaucrats.

Lt Colonel Devinder Singh  Rana while lauding the sacrifice of the valiant soldier Sandeep Thapa said that he was a brave, highly motivated and a sincere soldier. The nation will always remain indebted to him for his dedication to duty and supreme sacrifice.  According to Lt., Colonel Devender Rana, Sandeep fell to the bullets of the Pakistani soldiers yesterday in the Naoshera sector of Rajouri district at LOC in Jammu and Kashmir. This was while bravely retaliating to Pak’s gunning of shells violating the ceasefire agreement.

He sacrificed himself while bravely guarding our frontier and countering enemy shellings. The Indian Army responded with double the force causing tremendous casualties on the Pakistani side. They destroyed several posts of the enemy country.

After paying his last respects to the martyred soldier the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat assured of all possible financial and other help to the bereaved family. He tweeted:’Sainyadham Uttarakhand ki gauravshali parampara ka nirvahan karte hue Naoshera  mein shaheed hue Sandeep Thapa ko Bhavpurn shradhanjali arpit kee. Hame apni senaon par purn vishwas hai ki Sandeep Thapa ka balidan vyarth nahi jayega. Thapa Parivar ke saath hum sabki gehri samvednayen hai. Sarkaar har samay unke saath khadi hai.’ (‘While obeying the healthy traditions of Sanya Dhaam, Uttarakhand, I paid my respectful tributes to the martyr of Naoshera, Sandeep Thapa. We are fully confident about our Army’s valour and strongly feel that the sacrifice of Sandeep Thapa will never go waste. We all convey our deepest sympathies to the Thapa family. The government is and will be always with the bereaved family.’)