Home Minister to flag off a Fight Against Drugs motorcycle rally at the National Police Memorial on Police Commemoration Day

19 October 2026

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will pay homage to police personnel at the National Police Memorial at Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, on Police Commemoration Day, 21 October 2026. He will flag off a nationwide motorcycle rally on the theme Fight Against Drugs with about 90 police riders drawn from Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, and from the CRPF, CISF, BSF, SSB, ITBP, NSG, RPF, NDRF and NIA. Riders from all States and Union Territories and central forces will reach Ekta Nagar in Gujarat for the Ekta Parade on 31 October 2026. The day marks 21 October 1959, when ten policemen were killed in an ambush at Hot Springs in Ladakh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the National Police Memorial to the nation on Police Commemoration Day in 2018. The memorial has a 30-foot granite central sculpture, a Wall of Valour with the names of police personnel killed since Independence, and a museum on policing in India.