Earlier, the ceremony used to end with the Christian hymn 'Abide With Me', said to be a favourite of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and written by a Scottish Anglican preacher named Henry Francis Lyte.
Union Defence Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh also said that the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi was, is and will remain relevant and described him as a guide (margdarshak) for the nation.
the Army attempts to validate the operational effectiveness and warfare capability of the Indian Army’s 21 Corps, one of service’s three so-called strike corps, in an integrated air, land battle scenario.
COAS Bipin Rawat, Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh and NSA Ajit Doval were speaking at the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) 41st directors’ conference yesterday.
Calling Shastra Puja as a 'tamasha', Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge further said that the previous Congress government bought weapons like the Bofors guns, but no one went and brought them by showing off.