India's 63rd Republic Day Celebrated In Parade (PHOTOS)

On Thursday, India celebrated the 63rd annual Republic Day, marking the day on which India's constitution became the primary governing document of the country three years after India declared independence in 1947. One of the country's three national holidays, Republic Day is celebrated with a parade in New Delhi. This year, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attended the parade along with Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, 2012’s guest of honor. The parade included a display of weaponry, a variety of marching contingents and lots of songs and dance. Check out the photos below to see the colorful celebrations.

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[SoldAmerican]

01:26 AM on 01/28/2012

India has been ruled by a single Catholic family for 6o years out of 65 years,, not sure if you can call it a republic

[Luuke]

04:52 AM on 01/28/2012

You know diddly squ@t about India and yet you think you have the expertise to make statements that no only are false but are blatant lies....Now here's why and I'd like you to get out of that nutshell you call a brain do some reading and then refute what I'm about to write.....

List of all Indian Prime ministers since independence
======================================

Jawahar lal Nehru ..First prime minister was a Kashmiri Pandit Hindu
Gulzir Nanda ......Interim PM was a Punjabi Hindu
Shastri.....Hindu
Indira Gandhi...Hindu
Moraji Desai...Hindu
Charan Singh...Hindu
rajiv Gandhi...Hindu
VP singh...Hindu
Narsimha rao...Hindu
Atal Vajpaee...Hindu
Deve Gowda...Hindu
Gujral....Hindu
Manmohan Singh...Sikh

[SoldAmerican]

10:12 AM on 01/28/2012

Some facts:

The C0ngress left party has ruled India 89% of the time and the Nehru feudal family has ruled 82% of that time!

Nehru prime minister of India, from 1947 until 1964 17 years

Indira Gandhi (Nehru's daughter who took the Gandhi's name just for name recognition so the poor people would vote for her thinking she was related to Mahatma Gandhi)) Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutiv­­e terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her d_eath in 1984, a total of fifteen years. 15 years

Rajeev Gandhi (Indira's son) was the 7th Prime Minister of India, serving from October 1984 to December 1989/91. = 7 years

ManMohan Singh as a Proxy PM for Sonia Gandhi. He took the oath as the Prime Minister of India on 22 May 2004 = 7 years +

Total = 46 years

Lal Bahudur Shastri (Congress Party) = 2 years

P. V. Narasimha Rao (Congress Party) = 1991-1886 = 6 years

= 56 years. 56 years out of 63 years of India's independen­­ce

[SoldAmerican]

01:12 PM on 01/28/2012

Nehru was not a Hindu.. he is an atheist/sickularist/

Indira married a Muslim and converted

Rahul married a Catholc and converted.. Both his children are christian.. his Daughter a Catholic is married to a power Catholic family.

Today, Singh is a proxy for Sonia the Eva Peron of India.

Waiting in the wings is her son baby doc duavlier Rahul another Catholic.

[Luuke]

04:53 AM on 01/28/2012

Now there's not been a single Christian PM leave alone a Catholic one....Is that you just gettin your panties in a w@d because Sonia Gandhi who married Vajiv Ghandi was a Christian ?..

Your posts needs to be verified for lies before moderators post it and hence I'm going to flag it for being utterly false and blatant lies....

Where do you get off with your lies ?You are one sick person who can't stand people of a certain faith as most of your posts do say so and I have no problem with it cause thats your choice but when you base it on blatant lies is when you need to be shown the mirror.....Now go find something else about Catholics to bash about..maybe the Pope n stuff or the pedo priests I don't care but be honest about it......

[SoldAmerican]

10:14 AM on 01/28/2012

Sonia is the most powerful woman.,.Singh is just a proxy for her. .You don't know Indian politis... She has a big Christian evangelical gang in Delhi helping her out

[kkinmpls]

12:12 PM on 01/27/2012

Interesting that the military is so prominently displayed in these photos since it was mainly the efforts of peaceful protests led by Gandhi and not a violent overthrow that created the modern Indian state and liberation from Britain. Just sayin'...

[Strategy]

11:06 PM on 01/27/2012

Thats just to remind the world- Foreign OCCUPATION of India, NEVER AGAIN!!

[SoldAmerican]

12:36 AM on 01/28/2012

India is ruled by an Italian Catholic woman.... what do you mean, "Never again"?

[Luuke]

06:16 AM on 01/27/2012

Jai Hind

[Phil Van Voorhis]

06:36 PM on 01/26/2012

You've got to check this out:

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/dancing-finnair-flight-attendants_n_1234513.html