{"id":124405,"date":"2022-10-28T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=124405"},"modified":"2022-10-28T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:30:54","slug":"smt-droupadi-murmu-presents-silver-trumpet-and-trumpet-banner-to-the-presidents-bodyguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/smt-droupadi-murmu-presents-silver-trumpet-and-trumpet-banner-to-the-presidents-bodyguard\/","title":{"rendered":"Smt Droupadi Murmu presents Silver Trumpet and Trumpet Banner to the President\u2019s Bodyguard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Smt Droupadi Murmu presents Silver Trumpet and Trumpet Banner to the President\u2019s Bodyguard: <\/strong>The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, presented the Silver Trumpet and Trumpet Banner to the President\u2019s Bodyguard (PBG) at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi (October 27, 2022).\u00a0 The President appreciated PBG for their excellent military traditions, professionalism and discipline in all their tasks. She said that the nation is proud of them. She expressed confidence that they will strive with dedication, discipline and valour, to maintain the highest traditions of Rashtrapati Bhavan and be an ideal role model for other Regiments of the Indian Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-october-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her brief remarks on the occasion, the President congratulated the Commandant, Officers, JCOs and Other Ranks of the PBG for the remarkable display of parade, maintenance of well groomed horses and the impressive ceremonial attire. She said that this event is even more special as the President\u2019s Bodyguard is celebrating 250 years of its Raising which is coinciding with \u2018Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav\u2019 being celebrated across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>History of President\u2019s Bodyguard:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The President\u2019s Bodyguard is the oldest regiment in the Indian Army, having been raised as the&nbsp;Governor-General\u2019s Bodyguard (later the Viceroy\u2019s Bodyguard) in 1773.&nbsp;As the President of India\u2019s own Guard, it has the unique distinction of being the only military unit of the Indian Army that is privileged to carry the President\u2019s Silver Trumpet and Trumpet Banner.<\/li><li>This distinction was conferred on the&nbsp;President\u2019s Bodyguard in 1923&nbsp;by the then Viceroy, Lord Reading, on the occasion of the&nbsp;Bodyguard completing 150 years of service.&nbsp;Each succeeding Viceroy, thereafter, presented the Silver Trumpet and Trumpet Banner to the Bodyguard.<\/li><li>On January 27, 1950,&nbsp;the regiment was renamed the President\u2019s Bodyguard. Every President has continued the practice of honouring the regiment. Rather than a coat of arms, as was the practice in the colonial era, the monogram of the President appears on the Banner. Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, presented his Silver Trumpet and Trumpet Banner to the President\u2019s Bodyguard on May 14, 1957.<\/li><li>The President\u2019s Bodyguard, as it is known today, was raised in Banaras (Varanasi) by the then Governor-General,&nbsp;Warren Hastings.&nbsp;It had an initial strength of 50 cavalry troopers, later augmented by another 50 horsemen. Today, the President\u2019s Bodyguard is a select body of hand-picked men with special physical attributes. They are chosen after a rigorous and physically gruelling process.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smt Droupadi Murmu presents Silver Trumpet and Trumpet Banner to the President\u2019s Bodyguard: The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, presented the Silver Trumpet and Trumpet Banner to the President\u2019s Bodyguard (PBG) at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi (October 27, 2022).\u00a0 The President appreciated PBG for their excellent military traditions, professionalism and discipline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":124406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4970],"tags":[4916],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-124405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2022","tag-national-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124407,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124405\/revisions\/124407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124405"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=124405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}