Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent Diwali on Wednesday with soldiers in Amritsar in Punjab and said they were his family.
Modi laid a wreath and paid respects at the Dograi War Memorial in Khasa, Amritsar.
"I spent time with our soldiers and we had a wonderful conversation," he tweeted.
"In the 1965 war, the Battle of Dograi on September 22, 1965, was one of the toughest battles fought and won by our forces," he said.
Modi said that people spend Diwali with the families and the soldiers are his family.