{"id":8459,"date":"2022-01-26T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T08:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=8459"},"modified":"2022-01-26T08:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T08:25:22","slug":"pm-modi-greets-the-nation-on-73rd-republic-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=8459","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi greets the nation on 73rd Republic Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday extended his greetings to the citizens of the country on the occasion of the 73rd Republic Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWishing you all a happy Republic Day. Jai Hind!,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Republic Day Parade 2022 will showcase India\u2019s military might and cultural diversity and many unique initiatives have been included to mark the celebration of the 75th year of Independence as part of \u2018Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 21 tableaux, 12 of various states and Union Territories, nine of ministries will be showcased at the Republic Day parade this year.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to the fallen soldiers at the newly built National War Memorial (NWM) here on Wednesday morning prior to participating in the 73rd Republic Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of State for Defense Ajay Bhatt, Defense Secretary, Ajay Kumar, and the Chiefs of the three wings of the Army, ie, Army, Air Force, and Navy, were also present on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The Inter services Guards was formed by 7 Soldiers from each service. This year, the guards were commanded by a Naval Officer, Lt Cdr Amit Kumar Rathi. The Contingent commander was Sqn Ldr Akash Gangas.<\/p>\n<p>When the Prime Minister laid the wreath, the Inter services guards presented \u2018Salami Shastra\u2019 followed by \u2018Shok Shastra\u2019. Simultaneously, the buglers sounded the \u2018Last Post\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter \u2018two minutes silence\u2019 was observed, after which the buglers sounded \u2018Rouse and guards presented \u2018Salami Shastra\u2019 again. The Prime Minister then endorsed his remarks in the digital Visitor\u2019s Book of National War Memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday extended his greetings to the citizens of the country on the occasion of the 73rd Republic Day. \u201cWishing you all a happy Republic Day. Jai Hind!,\u201d PM Modi tweeted. Republic Day Parade 2022 will showcase India\u2019s military might and cultural diversity and many unique initiatives have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8462,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions\/8462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}