Nimrat Kaur Remembers Her Father Main Bhupender Singh On His thirty first Demise Anniversary – Firstpost

Nimrat Kaur, one in every of Indian cinema’s most celebrated actresses, paid tribute to her father, Late Main Bhupender Singh SC, on his thirty first loss of life anniversary. The martyred soldier was kidnapped on January seventeenth and assassinated by terrorists on the fateful morning of January 23, 1994. In a poignant recollection, Nimrat shared how her father Main Bhupender Singh’s heroic sacrifice was honoured with the celebrated Shaurya Chakra, which was posthumously awarded to him at Rashtrapati Bhavan on March 13, a date that coincidentally falls on Nimrat’s birthday.

On his beginning anniversary in 2024, Nimrat Kaur and her household inaugurated a memorial to commemorate her father and twelve troopers who additionally misplaced their lives in service to the nation. She shared that the troopers, alongside along with her father, hailed from Mohanpura, Ganganagar, his birthplace, the place a chowk is called in his honour as ‘Main Bhupender Singh Chowk.’

Nimrat proudly additionally mirrored on her father’s inspiring journey. Regardless of humble beginnings, he was self-taught and pursued his schooling in his village earlier than graduating on scholarship from Jodhpur College. Later, he joined the Indian Military via the Indian Navy Academy in Dehradun, profitable the Sword of Honour in his batch, incomes his fee within the 64 Engineer Regiment, Bengal Sappers.

Through the years, Nimrat has typically spoken in regards to the profound affect her father had on her life and the values he instilled in her. Sharing footage from the memorial’s inauguration, she penned a heartfelt caption, a part of which learn: “A dream my household and I dreamt of 30 years in the past since we misplaced him in Jammu and Kashmir in 1994, lastly got here true.”