With No Chief Guest to First Woman Fighter Pilot, this 72nd Republic Day Will Be Celebrated Uniquely: Here's How

Flight lieutenant Bhawana Kant will become the first woman fighter pilot to participate in the Republic Day parade in 2021. Moreover, the 72^nd Republic Day will prove to be unique in terms of the participating numbers of children and folk artists. It has been reduced to 400 from the previous year’s 600. It is a measure adopted for a pandemic-free Republic Day celebration.

The Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative of Aatma Nirbhar Bharat or Self-Reliant India will also be featured in the 2021’s Republic Day celerbration. There will be school children present in the event, presenting a programme on the theme – ‘Hum Fit toh India Fit’. It is inspired by the Fit India Movement launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of National Sports Day on 29^th August 2019.

Indian Republic Day celebration is unique and every year, millions of people around the world switch on their television to witness the extraordinary celebration of the event.

The Republic Day, in addition to highlight the importance of National Pride, also forges diplomatic relations as the country traditionally invites foreign dignitary as chief guests, a customary tradition maintained from the first R-day celebration since 1950.

But, with the outbreak of the novel corona virus, 2021 Republic Day celebration will be different from the previous years. As the pandemic has placed the world in a critical situation, where patients still in care in different parts of the world, and the developed nations like the United States and the United Kingdom are still recovering from its aftereffects, vaccines are being rolled out.

There has been a discovery of a new strain of coronavirus in Britain which has forced a stricter lockdown and moreover, affected India’s Republic Day event schedule.

The Honorable Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi had invited the British counterpart Boris Johnson to grace the 72^nd Republic Day celebrations as the Chief Guest, but the United Kingdom PM, called PM Modi on January 5 to inform about cancellation of his trip to India due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus cases.

Now, there is speculation about replacement of Boris Johnson as the Republic Day Chief Guest. An official statement from the Ministry of External Affairs has ended the rumours as the ministry has informed that no foreign Head of State or Head of Government as the Chief Guest for the Republic Day event will be there this year due to the global COVID-19 situation.

From inviting the Indonesia President Sukarno as the chief guest in the first Republic Day to the previous year’s chief guest the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonary, in the past decades, there has always been a foreign dignitary as Chief Guest present while India celebrated its Republic Day.

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