The local women in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir, celebrated the festival of Bhai Dooj with Indian Army personnel by applying tilak or sindoor on their foreheads.

During the celebrations, one of the women, Jyoti Bhalla, said they also visit the Poonch border on Raksha Bandhan so that the Army personnel do not feel their sisters’ absence.

“Today we have come from Poonch with all our sisters, to the Poonch border, to apply tilak to our brothers on the occasion of Bhaiya Dooj. We sisters come here on Raksha Bandhan for the long life of our brothers and also come to our brothers whenever Bhaiya Dooj is celebrated so that they do not feel the absence of their sisters…” Bhalla told ANI.

Indu Bala, a resident of Poonch, said they visited the border on Bhaiya Dooj to pray for the long lives of the

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