A full dress rehearsal of the Republic Day Parade was organised here at the lal Parade Ground on Sunday. For better interstate coordination, a contingent from Chhattisgarh police is for the first time participating in the Republic Day Parade.
SAF constable Ramchandra Kushwaha played the role of chief guest and hoisted the tri-colour and inspected the parade.
later, in the full dress rehearsal police band played Jan Gan Man and thereafter, Parade was led by Commander CSP Indore Vijay Nagar Suraj Kumar Verma (IPS) and the second in command was SDOP Ajayharh Panna Alok Kumar Sharma.
The police officials claimed that a contingent of Chhattisgarh police came to participate in the R-Day parade, for maintaining better coordination between two States. It was claimed that decision in this regard was taken as Prime Minister Narendra Singh Modi had recently, in a DGPs’ Conference held at Kutch (Gujarat), emphasised on better interstate police coordination
Similarly, a contingent from Madhya Pradesh police is already in Raipur (Chhattisgarh) to take part in Republic Day parade there.
Director General of Police Surendra Sinh and Additional Director General (SAF) KN Tiwari inspected the arrangements for the Republic Day Parade and function on the R-Day Parade.
During the full dress rehearsal Commissioner of Bhopal division SB Singh, district Collector Nishant Varwade, Bhopal IG Yogesh Choudhary, SSP Raman Singh Sikarwar, SP Bhopal (South) Anshuman Singh were present and senior police officers and senior officials of other department were present. Platoon Commander Ajab Singh was leading Dog Squad and Platoon Commander Chagan lal was leading Horse Squad.
Troupes of different forces also participated in the parade. In the parade Inspector Ajay Singh was leading CISF, Inspector Yashpal Sharma was leading SSB, Platoon Commander Neel Kishore was leading SAF Chhattisgarh, Company Commander MP Mukesh Saini, SI Ajit Kumhare was leading district police and Company Commander Vijendra Mehra was leading Hawk Force.
Chaotic scenes were witnessed after a horse went berserk and the horse rider fell from the horse. The horse was later controlled and reined by the equestrian squad members.