Four Mi-17 IV helicopters of the 105 Helicopter Unit will shower flower petals on the audience present at Kartavya Path.This will be followed by ‘Aavaahan’, a band performance by over 100 women artistes playing various types of percussion instruments.The parade will then commence with President Murmu taking the salute.It will be commanded by Lieutenant General Bhavnish Kumar, General Officer Commanding, Delhi Area.The Kartavya Path will also be witness to a march past by a combined band and marching contingent of the French Armed Forces.A total of 16 tableaux from states and Union territories and nine from central ministries and departments will roll down the Kartavya Path during the parade.The states and Union territories from where the tableaux will take part in the parade are Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Manipur, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Ladakh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana.
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