NB In List | Udhampur Railway Station to be named after martyr Captain Tushar Mahajan; 6 inspiring facts about him
08 Sep 2023 12:16:11
New Delhi, Sept 8: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Thursday said that Udhampur Railway Station will be named as “Martyr Captain Tushar Mahajan Railway Station”.
Dr Singh, taking to micro-blogging site X said, “#Janmashtmi Gesture for #Udhampur: Thanks PM @NarendraModi ji. In response to our request, the Government of India has approved the naming of Udhampur Railway Station as “Martyr Captain Tushar Mahajan Railway Station”.”
A communication to this effect has been sent to the UT Government of #JammuAndKashmir to formally issue the required Gazette notification, he informed.
The Tushar Mahajan Trust, expressed gratitude stating, “we are highly thankful to PM Modi, Dr Jitendra Singh and local BJP leaders, in approving the Udhampur Railway station in the name of Capt Tushar. It was a long standing demand of Udhampur. Our sincere thanks to Dr Jitendra Singh.”
Who was martyr Captain Tushar Mahajan?
1. Captain Tushar Mahajan, a 9 PARA (Special Forces of the Indian Army officer) attained martyrdom after killing a terrorist while protecting the lives of other Army personnel in the terror attack on the JKEDI Building in Pulwama district in February 2016.
2. “He was such a boy that when he was asked to write an essay in the class he wrote that his aim was to join the Army and kill terrorists. That was the time when his other classmates did not even know what terrorists or the army was,” his classmate and childhood friend Sushant said.
3. Captain Mahajan was hit by four bullets when he stormed into the building (Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute) to take on the terrorists who have been hiding thereafter attacking a CRPF convoy.
4. Captain Mahajan was the only son of a well known Udhampur educationalist and retired principal Dev Raj Gupta and Asha Rani.
5. Selected for National Defence Academy training in 2010, Captain Mahajan had joined the Indian Army against the wishes of his parents.
6. On Jan 26, the Republic Day, Captain Mahajan’s WhatsApp status read, “so jaegi kal lipatkar tirange ke sath, yeh deshbhakti hai sahab, tarikhon per jagti hai” (Tomorrow, patriotism will also sleep, with the folding of the National Flag, it only wakes up on few dates).