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After Centre’s rejection, Netaji tableau to be displayed at Kolkata Republic Day programme

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By means of PTI

KOLKATA: Amid the talk over the central executive rejecting West Bengal’s tableau for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, the state executive has determined to convey out a identical tableau on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose whilst celebrating the day in Kolkata, a senior legit stated on Tuesday.

Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee will probably be garlanding the statue of Netaji on Purple Street on January 26 earlier than the celebrations for the Republic Day get started there, he stated.

“We will be able to pop out with a tableau on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his a hundred and twenty fifth delivery anniversary throughout the Republic Day parade on Purple Street. We now have began arrangements for that,” the legit stated.

In a letter to Top Minister Narendra Modi, Banerjee had expressed surprise over the Centre’s choice to exclude West Bengal’s tableau, which used to be set to concentrate on Netaji, from the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi.

She had advised the PM to rethink the verdict pronouncing other people of the state can be “pained” via the transfer.

On Tuesday, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh wrote to Banerjee indicating that because the Central Public Works Division’s tableau already featured Bose, West Bengal’s glide used to be no longer integrated for the parade, with out pronouncing it in such a lot of phrases.

“Our executive had celebrated in 2018 with nice fanfare the seventy fifth anniversary of the federal government Netaji shaped in exile in 1943. It used to be our executive which integrated the residing infantrymen of the Azad Hind Fauj (Indian Nationwide Military) within the Republic Day Parade and felicitated them,” Singh wrote in his letter.