Delhi Assembly Finalizes Nov. 26 Constitution Day Program With Vice-President Set to Release Vithalbhai Patel Book

Overview

• Speaker Vijender Gupta chaired a high-level review with Delhi Police, PWD, the Horticulture Department and the Assembly Secretariat to confirm event logistics and security.
• Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan will attend as chief guest and release a specially curated coffee table book honoring Vithalbhai Patel.
• Lt Governor V. K. Saxena and Chief Minister Rekha Gupta will serve as guests of honour, with Deputy Speaker Mohan Singh Bisht, Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh and Chief Secretary Rajeev Verma also slated to attend.
• The book features rare archival photographs, key documents and excerpts from Patel’s speeches, plus material on the evolution of India’s legislative institutions and visuals of the modern Parliament.
• The Delhi Assembly event marks Constitution Day on November 26, 1949 with a three-minute Government of India film to be screened, and coverage notes differing reports on whether Patel’s 1925 milestone fell on August 14 or August 24.