New Delhi: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is the Chief Guest at the India’s Republic Day celebrations in Delhi on 26^th January 2021. UK’s Foreign Secretary said in a statement on Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accepted India’s “very generous” invite to be the Republic Day chief guest at next month’s celebrations in Delhi, calling it “a great honour”. This will be Boris Johnson’s “first major bilateral visit” since he took charge last year, his office highlighted.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a statement said that “I am absolutely delighted to be visiting India next year at the start of an exciting year for Global Britain, and look forward to delivering the quantum leap in our bilateral relationship that Prime Minister Modi and I have pledged to achieve”. Boris Johnson is only the second British leader since India’s independence to attend the Republic Day parade in Delhi as guest of honour after John Major in 1993.

Boris Johnson has also invited PM Modi to join the G7 summit next year in Britain, said UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab; India would be one of the three guest countries. Raab reached Delhi this morning for a four-day India visit, and was welcomed by the Foreign Minister.