At 1554 today, Chief of Integrated Defence Staff Air Marshal Balabadra Radha Krishna, in the absence of the active duty Chief of Defence Staff, will ceremonially put the flames of Amar Jawan Jyoti against the nation’s war The eternal flame of the memorial fuses together.
According to Southern District officials, the merger of the flames will begin at 3.30pm when CISC arrives at Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate. The torches will be transferred to the National War Memorial with a contingent of guards, and the two torches will be merged.
The merging of the flames was done by Amar Jawan Jyoti lit under India Gate in 1972 after the 1971 Indo-Pak War, in memory of the 90,000 British Indian troops who lost their lives in World War I between 1914 and 1921 Soldiers, in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and the third war in Afghanistan. The flame of Amar Jawan represents the immortal soldier, while the India Gate represents colonial India.
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