Kargil Vijay Diwas is observed on 26 July every year to mark the successful conclusion of which operation?
- A.Operation Meghdoot
- B.Operation Vijay
- C.Operation Parakram
- D.Operation Cactus
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Operation Vijay. Kargil Vijay Diwas is observed on 26 July because the Indian armed forces completed the recapture of the heights in the Kargil sector under Operation Vijay on that date in 1999. The day honours the soldiers who fought at extreme altitude in that conflict.
Option A, Operation Meghdoot, was the 1984 operation by which India secured the Siachen glacier, a different place and a different year. Option C, Operation Parakram, was the mobilisation of forces along the border after the attack on Parliament in December 2001, and it did not involve the Kargil heights. Option D, Operation Cactus, was the 1988 Indian intervention in the Maldives to reverse an attempted coup, so it belongs to an entirely different theatre.
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