Republic Day full dress rehearsal

NewsBharati    22-Jan-2021 15:04:35 PM
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New Delhi, January 22: Ahead of the Republic Day 2021, the full dress rehearsal parade was held on January 23. While the rehearsal began at 9.50 am, and the parade started from Vijay Chowk to the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium. Earlier the parade route was 8.3 km long, stretching from Vijay Chowk to Lal Quila. This time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the parade route has been shortened to a 3.3 km route from Vijay Chowk to the National Stadium.

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On January 26, the tableau of the parade will go to the Red Fort. For this reason, some additional routes will be closed on 26 January. In view of the full dress rehearsal of January 23, Delhi Traffic Police had said that it would close the Vijay Chowk, Rafi Marg, Janpath, etc. routes after 11 pm on January 22.
 
Due to the COVID pandemic, no foreign guest will be present at India's Republic Day parade, something that has been one of the highlights of the annual event celebrating the country's diversity at the heart of Delhi.
 
India had extended an invite to UK PM Boris Johnson to be the guest at the Republic day who had accepted and confirmed that he would be coming. But earlier this month he had informed the Indian PM of his inability to come due to the new strain of covid virus that had emerged in the UK.
 
This is the 4th time in history that no foreign guest will be present on Republic Day. The last time it had happened was in the year 1966, and before that in 1953 and 1952. The full dress rehearsals will take place on January 23 and the final parade on January 26, for which a separate advisory will be issued.
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