Republic day Chief Guest: Indonesia President Prabovo Subyanto is the chief guest at the 76th Republic Day celebrations of India. In the year 1950, when Republic Day was celebrated for the first time, the President of Indonesia was also invited as the chief guest. This tradition of inviting the chief guest has been going on from the first Republic Day itself. In this list of 75 years, India has given this honor to many countries around the world.
Most of the time French leaders have become the chief guest of Republic Day. A total of 6 times this has happened. The neighboring country has also been made the chief guest from Pakistan. In 1955, Pakistan Governor General Malik Ghulam Mohammed and Pakistan Agriculture Minister Rana Abdul Hamid became the Chief Guest on Republic Day in 1965. India invited chief guests from Asia to Europe and Africa for their Republic Day celebrations. The President of America has also become the Chief Guest in this ceremony. In 2015, Barack Obama became the chief guest.
How is the chief guest of Republic Day decided?
This process begins six months before the Republic Day celebrations. The Ministry of External Affairs executes this entire process. First of all, a list is made for political and diplomatic relations, economic and defense cooperation, cultural and historical relations and global references.
On the basis of priorities, this list is prepared keeping in mind different standards. That is, sometimes due to a very good relationship with a country, the chief guest is invited from there, and sometimes despite not having a good relationship with a country, the invitation is sent to the objective that India strongly strongly strengthened its relations with the nation concerned in future Have to do Many times the list of the chief guest is also prepared to fulfill some special purpose.
The proposed countries for the chief guest are sent to the President and the Prime Minister. If approval is received from here, then the availability of the chief guest concerned is seen. If he is available, then the Ministry of External Affairs maintains official contact with the invited country.
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