REPUBLIC DAY PARADE OF INDIA 2018 [PhotoBlog]

Republic day is celebrated on 26th January every year in India. This was the day India formally adopted constitution as the guiding document in the 1950 and became an Independent republic from a monarchy.  

This day is declared as a holiday and celebrations take place every year to honor this day. Today we celebrated 69th Republic Day of India and I got an opportunity to attend the event. I was pretty excited to see the shows performed by Indian Armed Forces.  

We rushed to the venue around 8:15 am and it took us an hour to get inside after being scanned 3 times. There was a huge crowd gathered to watch the celebration and the chief guests were 10 leaders or heads of ASEAN States.  

Among the Chief guests were Sultan and incumbent Prime Minister Hassanal bolkiah of Brunei, Prime minister Hun Sen of Cambodia, President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith of Laos, Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia, President Htin Kyaw of Myanmar, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte of Philippines, President Halimah Yacob of Singapore, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha of Thailand and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc of Vietnam.

It was pretty hard to capture good images because of the huge crowd. Most of the time someone would come in beteen the camera and ruin the image. I will share with you the photographs that have come out okay. Rest are either blurred out or the angles ain't right.

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Some more photographs from the tableaus by Indian Armed Forces. This was one of the most exciting parts to watch tanks, missiles and radars in real.

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There were a lot of other weaponries which I haven't shared. Apart from that we had various tableaus each representing the speciality of every state in India. This showed the diversity of India.

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Karnataka

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Madhya Pradesh

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Tripura

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Uttarakhand

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Jammu and Kashmir

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Maharashtra

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Lakshadweep

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Chhattisgarh

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Assam

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Punjab

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Kerala

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Himachal Pradesh

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Manipur

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Gujarat

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Aakashvaani Radio Station

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And there were many others.

Finally I would like to leave you with this video I shot of the Air Show:

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You can watch the full event on Akashvaani's YouTube Channel:

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