Danapur railway station, home to The Bihar Regiment, an Indian army highly admired infantry regiment. name common to people frequently traveling via train in Patna routes. It is a large railway station located on the Howrah-Patna-Mughalsarai mainline. People often mix Danapur Cantt with the Danapur railway station reason being their proximity of only six kilometers.
The soldiers of this regiment have fought many wars like World War II, Indo Pakistan war of 1947,1965,1971, and the Kargil war. INS Vikramaditya, India’s largest navy ship and aircraft carrier have its association with the Bihar Regiment. With 9 Ashok Chakra, 7 Maha Vir Chakra, and 49 Vir Chakra along with hundreds of other prominent awards, the Bihar regiment is considered as India’s one of the most effective and experienced battles ready regiment.
Conflict initiated by Chinese looks like more scripted to divert attention at a time when the whole world is pointing fingers towards them for COVID. Kryptonite is the weakness of Superman (the Superhero character from the DC world) and has its origin from Krypton. Likewise COVID virus pandemic because of its origin from China and the unbearable loss it has caused worldwide had started showing China in a weaker stand.
Santosh Babu, Colonel from Telangana was leading the 16 Bihar Regiment when this skirmish started with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in east Ladakh. As per earlier high-level discussions both sides had to disengage from there and the 16 Bihar Regiment was assigned to monitor their disengagement. Chinese troops following orders of their masters, who seem to have their heads buried deep into the economic intoxication thought that the Indian troops will not reiterate, and ignored to disengage. They were assembling thrice the amount of equipment and troops than the Indian side for confrontation. When seriously confronted by Santosh Babu and the 16 Bihar regiment soldiers, they took down Santosh Babu.
The Chinese thought that the Indian CO is down, and the Indian soldiers are outnumbered by them, they can proceed with their evil intentions. They might have undermined the valor of Indian troops.
Indian troops and soldiers of 16 Bihar Regiments attacked the Chinese PLA and caused them severe harm to life and materials they had gathered there, without fearing for life and death. With the sole motto of “Karam is Dharam” (Work is Worship) and following the War Cry “Jai Bajrang Bali” (Victory to Bajrang Bali) and “Birsa Munda ki Jai” (Victory to Birsa Munda)” they might have asked the Chinese troops “Do you bleed? You will”. Chinese troop seems to have thought of Indian Soldiers as bats, but our soldiers came out like the real-life Batman, not the bats.
Glory to the Indian Army, Glory to the Brave soldiers of the Bihar Regiment.
By Gaurav Raj (Emoji Monkey)
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Well written..
Thanks Sir.
We know the glorious past of Bihar regiment.one of example :: NSG Commando unni Krishnan ,who gets his initial posting and training in Danapur cantt. We always know that china will betray us. We always lost your soldiers in free of cost , this was first incident where we lost 20 brave soldiers with China soldiers clash in boarder dispute .why our army respect treaty /agreement with China so much, where china never obliged to respect any agreement with India.We always fail to sense the betral of China and fails to empowered our soldiers. Our heart is in deep sorrow ,as well as in pride for our soldiers ,who are always there to save us and sacrifice their lives life for us .
Thanks Mrinal for a dding valuable insights!!