<span style="color: #222222;">Akashvani will broadcast its annual edition of the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture today. Former President Ram Nath Kovind will deliver this year's address. The lecture will be broadcast on the occasion of Sardar Patel’s birth anniversary between 9.30 and 10 pm today across the entire network of Akashvani. Listeners can also tune into Akashvani's GOLD, Rainbow, Indraprastha and airlivenews 24X7 channels. The lecture will also be available on other social media platforms. &nbsp;<br />”<br />”Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture is organised by Akashvani in memory of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, a great visionary who had National cohesion uppermost in his mind. It has been an honoured tradition since 1955 wherein, eminent personalities like &nbsp;C.Rajgopalachari, Dr. Zakir Hussain, Moraraji Desai, Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam, Jayant Narlikar, M.S. Swaminathan, Arun Jaitley, Ajit Doval and S. Jaishankar have been among those who delivered this prestigious memorial lecture in the past on wide-ranging subjects on India and its socio-economic strides. The birth anniversary of Sardar Patel is also known as the National Unity Day.&nbsp;</span><br />