What is actual reason behind rejecting tableaux?

New Delhi: Every year tableaux of States, Union Territories, departments of the Government of India, etc. march down New Delhi’s Rajpath on 26 January.

Last year, a total of 32 tableaux rolled down Rajpath of which 17 were from States and UTs.

A selected number of tableaux make it to the Republic Day parade. So, obviously the tableaux of some states get rejected every year.

But this year when the country is celebrating the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, perhaps some relaxation can be given and the number of tableaux can be increased.

However, even if the number is increased, the controversy that is happening now would not have happened. Right now there is a controversy regarding the tableaux of West Bengal and Kerala.

Surprisingly, the tableaux of West Bengal was based on the heroes of independence, yet it was rejected.

The State Government has said that on the occasion of 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, a tableau of the Azad Hind

Sena was made and photographs of great freedom fighters of Bengal were also included in it.

Pictures of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, Maharishi Arvind, Matangini Hazra, Bhagwan Birsa Munda etc. were also put in the tableaux.

Similarly, the tableau of the Kerala government was based on the great social reformer Narayan Guru, who campaigned for breaking the caste-barrier and untouchability.

Along with this, the state government had also shown Jatayu Park as a tourist center in the tableau.

But it was rejected. It is being told that the central government wanted the tableau to be on Shankaracharya.

Kerala tableau has been rejected thrice in the last four years and that is when the ruling Communist Party made it a big issue.

State ministers and leaders have asked the BJP whether they agree with the central government’s decision to reject the tableau of Narayan Guru.