Amar Shaheed Poonam Singh Bhati (ETV Bharat Jaisalmer)
Jaisalmer: The 59th Balidan Diwas ceremony of Amar Shaheed Poonam Singh Bhati, the son of Jaisan land, was celebrated on the martyr’s birthplace Habur (Poonamnagar). People paid tributes to Shaheed Poonam Singh Bhati on his Balidan Diwas. He had killed 8 Pakistani Rangers together with a Pak commander within the 1965 warfare. However, he himself sacrificed his life whereas preventing within the warfare.
Villager Shaitan Singh informed that Poonam Singh Bhati was posted along with his seven companions on the border publish Bhuto Wali within the Indo-Pak warfare of 1965. On the midnight of 8 September 1965, Pakistani commander Afzal Khan attacked the publish Bhuto Wali along with his 60 Rangers. Paramveer Poonam Singh Bhati fought bravely along with his companions all night time towards the enemy. He even introduced cartridges from the enemy camp when the cartridges in his camp obtained over and he himself attained martyrdom after killing 8 Pakistanis together with Pakistani commander Afzal Khan. The remaining enemy troopers ran away in concern. Due to his bravery, the publish Bhuto Wali remained secure. He was posthumously honored with the President’s Police Medal. To hold his reminiscence alive perpetually, Balidan Diwas ceremony is widely known yearly on 9 September.
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He has been a satyagrahi of the landowner motion: Villager Jalam Singh informed that Poonam Singh was born on 16 June 1940 in the home of Jai Singh of village Habur. Poonam Singh was courageous since childhood. After finding out until fifth normal, 17-year-old Poonam Singh went to jail as a Satyagrahi within the historic Bhuswamis (landowners) motion in Rajasthan in 1956. He joined the police service on 15 October 1961. The then Superintendent of Police Thakur Moti Singh Hada had mentioned on the time of recruitment that this younger man will carry glory to the nation. After the warfare ended, the then President honoured Poonam Singh Bhati by awarding him the Indian Police’s Agni Seva Medal posthumously. In his reminiscence, Habur was later renamed Poonam Nagar.
