153 Indian cadets (124 men and 29 women) were commissioned into the Indian Army as Lieutenant-rank officers on Saturday.
New Delhi: “Kadam kadam badhaye ja, khushi ke geet gaye jaa. Ye zindagi hai quam ki, tu quam pe lootaye ja”(March-march on forward, singing songs of happiness as you go. This life belongs to our motherland, lay it down for the motherland), 11-year-old Lavanya Nainwal sang as her mother, Jyoti Nainwal, wife of Indian Army Major Late Deepak Nainwal, was commissioned as a Lieutenant-rank officer in the Army.
Lavanya, daughter of an Indian Army Major who made the supreme sacrifice for the country fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, expressed that her mother is the best one in the world.
I’m feeling very proud of my Mumma, she always used to say that she will become an Army officer and today she has fulfilled her dream… She is the best mother in the world, I love her very much”, a jubilant Lavanya told Zee Media as her mother joined Army on Saturday (November 20) after completing a gruelling 11-month training programme at Chennai’s Officers Training Academy.