A Tribute to India’s Iron Man: Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to Deliver Prestigious Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture on 27 October

Akashvani is organizing the 67th edition of the annual Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Memorial Lecture series on 27 October 2026 at the Rang Bhawan Auditorium in New Delhi. The lecture is to be delivered by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development, Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The annual lecture series has been organized by Akashvani since 1955 to commemorate Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and the recorded lecture is scheduled to be broadcast nationwide across the Akashvani network on Patel's birth anniversary, 31 October.