<span style="color: #222222;">Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (retd), who is known as the hero of the historic 1971 battle of Longewala, died today in a private hospital in Mohali in Punjab. He was 78. Brig Chandpuri was a Maha Vir Chakra awardee.</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">The battle of Longewala (1971) was one of the first major engagements in the western sector during the Indo-Pak war of 1971, fought between assaulting Pakistani forces and Indian defenders at the Indian border post of Longewala in the Thar desert of Rajasthan.</span><br />