Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is to be the chief guest at India's 74th Republic Day celebrations
Here are a few things to know about the Egyptian president
President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi who has been serving as president of Egypt since 2014 will be the first Egyptian leader to be hosted by India for the Republic Day celebrations
He is a retired military officer who served as the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian army till 2014
After deposing Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected president through a military coup in 2013, Sisi won the elections to become Egypt's president in 2014
Born in 1954, he graduated from the military academy of Egypt and received additional training from Joint Services Command and Staff College in the UK in 1992