Mamata Banerjee Writes To PM Modi Over Centre's Move To Reject Bengal's R-Day Tableau, Says 'Shocked & Hurt'
CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday wrote to PM Narendra Modi urging him to reconsider the decision as people West Bengal would be "pained" by the move.
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamara Banerjee on Sunday 'expressed shock' over Centre's decison to not include West Bengal's tableau the upcoming Republic Day Parade in Delhi. The proposed tableau of the West Bengal Government was to commemorate freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and his INA on his 125th birth anniversary.
As per news agency PTI, CM Mamata on Sunday wrote to PM Narendra Modi urging him to reconsider the decision as people West Bengal would be "pained" by the move.
"I have been profoundly shocked and hurt by the decision of the Government of India to abruptly exclude the proposed tableau of the Government of West Bengal from the ensuing Republic Day Parade. It is even more baffling for us that the tableau was rejected without assigning any reasons or justifications," Banerjee said in a two-page letter to Modi, PTI reported.
This is not the first time that West Bengal's tableau proposal got rejected. In 2015, 2017 and 2020, the Central government had rejected West Bengal's tableau proposals for Republic Day Parade.
"I may like to inform you that all the people of West Bengal are deeply pained by this attitude of the central government. It is shocking to find that the contribution of its valiant freedom fighters finds no place in the nation's ceremony to celebrate the occasion of the Republic Day on the 75th year of our Independence.
"I urge you to reconsider the decision and include the tableau of freedom fighters from West Bengal in the Republic Day parade on the 75th year of our Independence," Banerjee added.
(With PTI Inputs)
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