Kargil Diwas is celebrated every year on 26 of July in India, to observe India's victory over Pakistan in the Kargil War

After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations wanted to control the Siachen Glacier which resulted in  military skirmishes in the 1980s

History

Both countries signed the Lahore Declaration in February 1999, promising to provide a peaceful and bilateral solution to the Kashmir conflict

The aim of the Pakistani incursion was to sever the link between Kashmir and Ladakh and cause Indian forces to withdraw from the Siachen Glacier

Forcing India to negotiate a settlement of the broader Kashmir dispute, the Indian troops in the area assumed that the infiltrators were jihadis

Along with the difference in tactics employed by the infiltrators, caused the Indian army to realize that the plan of attack was on a much bigger scale

The Government of India responded with Operation Vijay, a mobilization of 200,000 Indian troops, with the eviction of Pakistan Army troops from their occupied positions

Marking it as Kargil Vijay Diwas,  527 soldiers from the Indian Armed Forces lost their lives during the war

Captain Vikram Batra was one of the prominent figures in the Kargil war who led his team to recapture Point 4875 even after getting injured., The famous declaration of Captain Vikram Batra, 'Ye dil mange more!

The Prime Minister visited Kargil on the 25th anniversary of the Kargil Vijay Diwas to honor the courageous soldiers who sacrificed their lives in service to the nation