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According to a brochure released by the Indian Army , One of Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite hymns Abide With Me has been dropped from this year’s Beating Retreat ceremony on January 29.
As per PTI report, Abide With Me, written by Scottish Anglican poet and hymnologist Henry Francis Lyte in 1847, has been part of the Beating Retreat ceremony since 1950.
The Centre had in 2020 also planned to drop Abide With Me from the Beating Retreat ceremony but had later retained it after a huge uproar.
The brochure released by the Indian Army on Saturday listed 26 tunes that will be played at this year’s ceremony at Vijay Chowk.
For this year’s ceremony, the hymn has been replaced by the popular patriotic song Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon, which was written by Kavi Pradeep to commemorate the supreme sacrifice made by the Indian soldiers during the 1962 Indo-China war.
