Some important National Days

Current Context: Here are some national important days. These days hold great significance in India’s history and culture and are celebrated with various events and activities across the country.

• August 5: is celebrated for the repeal of Article 370 in 2019 and as “Ayodhya Diwas” for laying of the foundation stone for the Ram Temple in 2020.
• January 22: will be the consecration of the temple with demands that it be declared a public holiday and the PM has urged people to celebrate it as Diwali.
• May 28: The PM inaugurated the new Parliament Building on the birth anniversary of VD Savarkar.
• December 25: is celebrated as Christmas and also as “Good Governance Day” on the occasion of the birth anniversary of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
• January 23: In 2021, the government announced celebrating Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth Anniversary as “Parakram Diwas”.
• October 31: Since 2014, Sardar Patel’s birth anniversary has been celebrated as “National Unity Day” while earlier Indira Gandhi’s birth anniversary on November 19 was marked as “National Integration Day”.
• March 12: In 2021, the PM launched the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav on the day Mahatma Gandhi began the Dandi salt satyagraha in 1930, and it was conducted on October 31, 2023.
• August 14: In 2021, the PM urged people to mark it as the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, it is Pakistan’s Independence Day.
• December 26: is now celebrated as Veer Bal Diwas, where Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar are announced instead of November 14, Jawahar Lal Nehru’s birth anniversary.

Question:

Q.1 What event does January 22 commemorate?
a. Consecration of the Ram Temple
b. Diwali
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above