President Kovind to Inaugurate General KS Thimayya’s Museum in Kodagu on Feb 6

President of India Ram Nath Kovind on February 6 will inaugurate General K S Thimayya’s museum in Kodagu district, disclosed Housing and Kodagu district-in-charge Minister V Somanna on Tuesday (January 26).

While presiding over a preparatory meeting in Kodagu ahead of the president’s visit, the minister said that Kovind will arrive in Bengaluru on February 5 before reaching to Kodagu the next day by helicopter. General K S Thimayya’s house “Sunny Side” in Madikeri was recently renovated and converted into a museum.

The president is also scheduled to visit Talacauvery and Bhagamandala where he will offer a special puja. Entry of the general public to Talacauvery will be restricted on February 5 and 6, says the minister.

General Kodendera Subayya Thimayya who was born in Madikeri (1906-1965), DSO was a distinguished soldier of the Indian Army who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1957 to 1961 in the crucial years leading up to the conflict with China in 1962. General Thimayya was the only Indian to command an Infantry brigade in battle during the Second World War and is regarded as the most distinguished combat officer the Indian Army has produced. After the Korean War, Thimayya headed a United Nations unit dealing with the repatriation of prisoners of war.

After his retirement from the Army, he was appointed Commander of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus from July 1964 to December 1965 and died in Cyprus while on active duty on 18 December 1965.

Source: ANI