Republic Day 2025: With just two days left for the grand Republic Day celebrations, excitement is building among those who are going to attend. Preparations for the celebrations are underway with full vigor in the national capital. The spectacular Republic Day parade in Delhi attracts a huge crowd every year. But do you know that this year’s celebration has something special, which will provide an enriching experience for everyone?

Here’s more about it:

The Republic Day Parade of 2025 will feature a cultural performance with 5000 artists. It will cover the entire Kartavya Path from Vijay Chowk and C hexagon to ensure that all guests get the same viewing experience.

Major General Sumit Mehta, Chief of Staff, HQ Delhi Area, told ANI that earlier cultural performers used to come walking to Kartavya Path in front of the main dais and used to perform and move forward. But this time, cultural performers will be visible on the entire Kartavya Path.

This change has been made keeping in mind the people who don’t get to see the cultural performances despite being in attendance.

“There will be 5000 cultural artists, earlier when cultural performers used to come walking to Kartavya Path, where the President is sitting with other dignitaries, they used to perform and move forward. So, we understood the rest of the people present there don’t get to see the view of cultural performance. So, this time, cultural performers will be visible on the entire Kartavya Path,” Major Mehta added.

What’s Special This Year?

In the cultural component of the Republic Day Parade, Ministry of Culture, through Sangeet Natak Academy, is organizing an 11-minute cultural performance with 5,000 artists in the title of “Jayati Jaya Mamah Bharatam”.

The performance will include more than 45 dance forms from different parts of the country. The performance will cover the entire Kartavya Path, for the first time.

Displaying the spirit of unity and integration, a Tri-Services tableau will also roll down Kartavya Path for the first time during the 76th Republic Day Parade.

There will be certain tableaux of credited Indian army veterans who will be physically present on the tableaux.

A few types of equipment have been introduced this time. First is a battlefield surveillance system and second is the DRDO depiction of Pralay, the short-range ballistic missile.

“We are now following a tradition by which the nation of the Chief Guest of the Republic Day parade is invited to bring forward a contingent that marches along with us… You will see tanks, infantry combat vehicles, an anti-tank missile system, the BrahMos missile system, Agnibaan multiple rocket launchers, the Pinaka rocket launcher and the Akash air defence system in the parade,” he added.

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