AGARTALA, Dec 16 (TIWN): On the 46th anniversary of Vijay Diwas, Indian Armies have paid tributes to the martyrs, who dedicated their lives for the nation.

The programme was conducted at Lichu Bagan’s Sahid-Samrak near Agartala Military Station.

Vijay Diwas is commemorated every 16 December in India, as it marks its military victory over Pakistan in 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, in alliance with Bangladesh Mukti Bahini. The end of the war also resulted in the unilateral and unconditional surrender of the Pakistan Army and subsequent secession of East Pakistan into Bangladesh.

On this day in 1971, the chief of the Pakistani forces, General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, along with 93,000 troops, surrendered to the allied forces consists of Indian Army and Mukti Bahini, led by General Jagjit Singh Aurora, of India in the Ramna Race Course, now Suhrawardy Udyan, in Dhaka after their defeat in the war.

The anniversary of Vijay Divas is being observed across India by paying tributes to the martyrs who laid down their lives for the nation.