{"id":18218,"date":"2023-12-16T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18218"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:57:31","slug":"vijay-diwas-upsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vijay-diwas-upsc\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Vijay Diwas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Vijay Diwas<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Vijay Diwas is\u00a0commemorated on December 16 every year to\u00a0honor the victory of the Indian armed forces over Pakistan in the 1971 war and to pay tribute to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The day is also\u00a0observed in Bangladesh as \u2018Bijoy Dibos\u2019 or Victory Day,\u00a0marking the\u00a0country\u2019s formal independence from Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>History:\n<ul>\n<li>The 1971 war was\u00a0instigated by the genocide\u00a0perpetrated by the oppressive\u00a0Pakistani military regime, led by General Yahya Khan, against the people of East Pakistan.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The conflict\u00a0erupted when the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-led Awami League\u00a0emerged as the\u00a0winner in the 1970 elections.<\/li>\n<li>Post-elections, the\u00a0Pakistani military used force to influence the results, leading to a mass exodus of people from East Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>India intervened during this critical period.<\/li>\n<li>The then-Prime Minister of India,\u00a0Indira Gandhi,\u00a0provided refuge\u00a0to those who fled from the other side of the border.<\/li>\n<li>The situation escalated\u00a0on December 3, 1971, when Pakistan launched air strikes on 11 Indian airbases, compelling Indira Gandhi to instruct India&#8217;s Army Chief, General Sam Manekshaw,\u00a0to initiate a full-scale war\u00a0against Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>India supported\u00a0Bangladeshi nationalist groups and\u00a0executed &#8216;Operation Trident,&#8217; led by the Indian Navy,\u00a0to target Karachi Port.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Following a 13-day battle,\u00a0India secured a\u00a0resounding triumph over Pakistan\u00a0on December 16, 1971, leading to the creation of Bangladesh from the former East Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>On this significant day, General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi of\u00a0Pakistan signed the Instrument of Surrender, surrendering with 93,000 Pakistani soldiers\u00a0before the Indian Army and the Mukti Bahini of Bangladesh, marking the\u00a0most substantial military surrender post-World War II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Who was Sam Manekshaw?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sam Manekshaw was the Indian\u00a0Chief of the Army Staff\u00a0during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani\u00a0war.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>He was the\u00a0first Indian Army officer\u00a0to be\u00a0promoted to the rank of field marshal.<\/li>\n<li>He is often regarded as the\u00a0architect of India\u2019s victory during the 1971 war.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Kargil Vijay Diwas?<\/h3>\n<p>Kargil Vijay Diwas is observed on July 26 to commemorate India&#8217;s victory in the 1999 conflict with Pakistan. It honors the bravery of Indian soldiers in the war.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/vijay-diwas-pm-modi-congress-bjp-tributes-9070478\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>\u2018Sacrifice forever etched in our hearts\u2019: PM Modi, leaders across parties pay tributes on Vijay Diwas<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijay Diwas is commemorated on December 16 every year to honor the victory of the Indian armed forces over Pakistan in the 1971 war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}