New Delhi, Oct 26 (PTI) Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will deliver this year’s annual Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, which will be broadcast by Akashvani on October 31 to mark the birth anniversary of the country’s first deputy prime minister.
The lecture series seeks to commemorate the enduring legacy of Patel, remembered as the ‘Iron Man of India’.
Chouhan will deliver the lecture at the 67th edition of the lecture series being organised at Rang Bhawan Auditorium of Akashvani. The lecture will begin at 3 pm on October 27.
Recording of the lecture will be broadcast on Patel’s birth anniversary on the entire Akashvani network at 9.30 pm on October 31.
The inaugural lecture of the series was delivered by C Rajagopalachari, independent
India’s first governor general.
In a statement issued on Monday, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of India noted that Akashvani has been organising the annual lecture series since 1955 in the memory of Patel.
Patel, who was also India’s first minister of information and broadcasting, was considered the architect of national integration. PTI ACB SKY
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