In front of the Republic Day festivities in the public capital, the ‘timeless’ fire of the Amar Jawan Jyoti, which has been consuming for quite a long time, will be doused and converged with the fire at the National War Memorial on Friday, 21 January.
“The Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate will be quenched and converged with the fire at the National War Memorial on Friday in a service,” announced news office ANI, citing an Indian Army official.
As per the report, the service will be managed by the Integrated Defense Staff boss Air Marshal Balabhadra Radha Krishna.
What Is the Amar Jawan Jyoti & Why Is It Being Merged With the War Memorial Flame?
Amar Jawan Jyoti is a remembrance built after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 to celebrate the martyred and obscure warriors of the Indian Armed Forces who passed on during the conflict. The marble platform, on which a cenotaph is arranged, is limited by four urns, one of which holds a persistently consuming fire that loans the landmark its name.
The Jyoti is situated at India Gate, which was stablished by the British government in 1921 in the memory of the British Indian Army fighters who lost their lives somewhere in the range of 1914 and 1921, in the World War I and in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.