The Republic Day anniversary highlights the nation's achievements in assorted fields, the aggressive accomplishment and our abundant cultural heritage. This year the country is witnessing its 62nd Republic Day.
Let's bolt the comedy that the accompaniment is witnessing on January twenty six at Rajpath.
NEW DELHI: active tableaux depicting the countless hues of country's diversity, a active achievement by acceptance and aggressive in abounding action regalia -- the Republic Day array on Wednesday had 'mini-India' in itself.
Marching down from the Raisina Hills to Red Fort, the array showcased India's 'unity in diversity' and accordingly the aggressive may as bags of assemblage forth the 8km continued avenue animated the boot contingents and accordingly the mechanised columns.
The able-bodied angry out and synchronised aggressive and badge contingents led by General Officer Commanding ( Delhi) Maj Gen Manvendra Singh marched proudly to the agreeable tunes of bands through the Rajpath area President and Supreme Commander of aggressive Pratibha Patil took the salute.
The array was watched by the Republic Day arch bedfellow Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, vp Hamid Ansari, Prime Abbot Manmohan Singh, defence abbot A K Antony and accordingly the country's top political and aggressive brass.
The basic had was a aegis breastwork for the accident as unmanned aeriform cars (UAV) and helicopters scanned the basic from air, snipers kept a hawk-eye acuity from rooftops and armed cadre at "every corner" provided a ground-to-air aegis equipment.
Minutes afore the array began, Singh, Antony and chiefs of Army, Navy and Air Force laid wreaths at 'Amar Jawan Jyoti', the British-era World War-I canonizing at India Gate, area amaranthine blaze burns in anamnesis of these who laid down their lives admitting arresting the nation's frontiers.
The array began anon already Patil and her Indonesian analogue fell aloft the Rajpath escorted by the President's forty six bodyguards benumbed acquiescent and impeccably- adorned horses.
After the President continued the tricolour and a accepted 21-gun salute, a aggressive doctor Major Laishram Jyotin Singh was awarded posthumously the actual best peacetime address accolade -- the Ashok Chakra -- for his courage admitting angry militants throughout an advance on Indians in Kabul. He was the primary Army doctor accepting Ashok Chakra.
Four Mi-17 helicopters again zoomed in from the western skies and showered annual petals on the spectators, signalling the alpha of the array followed by the winners of the Param Vir Chakra and Ashok Chakra and army columns of sixty one Cavalry
