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Sundarji also led Operation Blue Star, intended to evict extremists who had occupied the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984.
The Southern Command has participated in various operations before and after Independence, including the amalgamation of Junagarh and Hyderabad in 1947-48 and the liberation of Goa in 1961.
On March 15, 1958, he was born in Pauri Garhwal, a small town in Uttarakhand.
In June last year, the Ministry of Defence announced a new policy on archiving, declassification, compilation and publication of histories of wars and operations carried out by the Indian armed forces.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami participated in the Sainik Sammelan organized at the Mahar Regiment in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh on Monday.