India is set to celebrate its 68th Republic Day on Thursday with Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi is the chief guest at Rajpath in New Delhi.
www.republicday.nic.in is the official website to Watch online Live stream ceremony celebrations from Red Fort.
You can watch the 68th Republic Day parade live in Rajpath on Doordarshan’s YouTube channel below, as well as on the Republic Day website. You can also watch President Pranab Mukherjee’s address on the eve of Republic Day on the website.
You can also see the event LIVE on all major News Channels in India. The translated version of Narendra Modi’s Republic Day 2017 Speech in different regional languages like Urdu, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Oriya, etc will be available on regional channels of Doordarshan.
Celebration started at 9 am, this year Republic Day ceremony will be starting at 9:50 am with a grand parade from Vijay Chowk towards the Red Fort ground through Rajpath, India Gate, Tilak Marg, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg and Netaji Subhash Marg. The event continues for three hours.
Highlights of the Parade at Rajpath:
Preparations and practice sessions ahead of the parade have been going on in full swing over the past few weeks.
However, the highlight of the parade this year would be a fly-past from the indigenous LCA Tejas combat aircraft and the marching contingent of National Security Guards (NSG), popularly known as the black cat commandos.
Another highlight would be the tableau from Himachal Pradesh, which is making a comeback of sorts after having been missing from the parade for three years. The state tableau will present the Chamba Rumal — the traditional pahari art form that saw immense popularity in the Chamba town of Himachal Pradesh during the 18th century.
