Chief Guest of Republic Day 2018

Chief Guest of Republic Day, 26th January 2018: In a first, leaders of 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are the chief guests of the Republic Day parade and ceremony at Rajpath near India Gate as India marks its 69th Republic Day on 26 January 2018. ASEAN is a regional grouping of 10 Southeast Asian countries.  The chief guest at India's first Republic Day on January 26, 1950 was the President of Indonesia, and since then, five other Southeast Asian leaders have chief guests at the Republic Day parades. Here is Name, List of 10 Guests:

1. Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
2. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen
3. Indonesia's President Joko Widodo
4. Laos' Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith
5. Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak
6. Myanmar's State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
7. Philippines' President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
8. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
9. Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha
10. Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.