A silent protest along with a public meeting was held in Ludhiana’s Bharat Nagar Chowk to mark the 60th martyrdom anniversary of 1965 Indo-Pak war hero and Maha Vir Chakra awardee Major Bhupinder Singh, Friday.

A Public Action Committee (PAC), along with ex-servicemen association, senior citizens, bar association, farm unions, students and other social organisations, are demanding that Ludhiana district administration should immediately restore the memorial of the war hero at the city’s heart – Bharat Nagar Chowk.

Major Bhupinder Singh’s statue and a captured Pakistani army tank once proudly stood at the city’s busiest roundabout. However, it was later relocated to an insignificant location near Rose Garden.

The PAC members said that even after years, the memorial has not been restore

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