Col J P Singh, Th. K P Singh ‘Jia Pota, colloquially a river bathing point on the Western Bank of River Chenab lies in Akhnoor sub-division of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir State. It got its name from the ‘Jia-Pota Tree’ under which a grand Coronation Ceremony of Raja Gulab Singh was performed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the emperor of Punjab, 200 hundred years ago on 17 June 1822. This historic event two centuries back would always remain etched in the […]