New Delhi: For the first time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to fallen soldiers at the newly built National War Memorial (NWM) here on the occasion of Republic Day today instead of Amar Jawan Jyoti beneath the India Gate arch.
.Prime Minister visited the National War Memorial before the commencement of the Republic Day Parade, and laid a wreath at the memorial in the presence of the three services chiefs and the Chief of the Defence Staff.
There will also be no wreath-laying at the Amar Jawan Jyoti, India Gate this year on the Republic Day, officials said.
While the India Gate bears the names of the soldiers who died in the First World War, the Amar Jawan commemorates the sacrifice of the soldiers in the 1971 Indo-Pak War.
India’s first war memorial was dedicated to the nation by Modi on February 25, 2019.
