Published: January 24, 2020 7:11:15 pm
Tableau from different states at display during the full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi on Thursday. (Express photo: Praveen Khanna)
Coming Sunday, India will celebrate its 71st Republic Day. The occasion marks the day when India's Constitution came into effect, and the country became a republic.
Breaking decades-old tradition, the R-Day proceedings this year will not begin from India Gate, where the Prime Minister commemorates soldiers who have died in battle for India but instead will begin from the National War Memorial, where Prime Minister Modi will lay a wreath.
The Prime Minister will be accompanied by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, Army chief General M M Naravane, Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh and Air Force chief Air Marshal R K S Bhadauria. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of State for Defence Shripad Yesso Naik and Defence Secretary Ajay Garg will also be present at the ceremony.
Following the wreath-laying ceremony, the Prime Minister will then head to Rajpath for the R-Day parade, which will begin at 10 am and last for 90 minutes.
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