Emmanuel Macron Will Be The Chief Guest At Republic Day 2024

The French President Emmanuel Macron will attend the Republic Day celebrations in 2024 as the chief guest. India has sent a formal invitation to Macron in this regard.

• Emmanuel Macron will be the sixth French leader to attend the 2024 Republic Day parade as chief guest.
• Former French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac attended the event twice, in 1976 and 1998.
• Former French Presidents Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande attended the Republic Day celebrations as chief guests in 1980, 2008 and 2016 respectively.
• The central government had earlier invited US President Joe Biden as the chief guest, but he expressed his inability to come.

Chief Guest at Republic Day Celebration 2023:

• Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi was the chief guest at India's Republic Day Parade 2023.
• Due to the Corona pandemic, no one was invited as the chief guest for the Republic Day celebrations in 2021 and 2022.

Chief Guest at India's first Republic Day Parade:

• Indonesian President Sukarno was the chief guest at the first Republic Day celebrations on 26 January 1950.
• King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal was the second chief guest of the Republic Day Parade in 1951.
• Malik Ghulam Mohammed was the first Pakistani person to be invited as the chief guest of the Republic Day parade in India.
• Representatives of the United Kingdom and France have been invited the most, 5 times each.

Republic Day:

• Republic Day is celebrated every year on 26 January to commemorate the adoption of the Indian Constitution.
• India's 75th Republic Day will be celebrated in the year 2024.
• The Indian Constitution was drafted and accepted on November 26, 1949 (Constitution Day).
• The Constitution came into force two months later, i.e. on 26 January 1950.
• There were a total of 22 committees in the making of the Constitution, in which the Drafting Committee was the most prominent and important committee.
• The work of this committee was to ‘write’ or ‘make’ the entire Constitution.
• The chairman of the drafting committee was jurist Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.
• The Drafting Committee drafted the Indian Constitution in 2 years, 11 months, 18 days.