R-Day tableau rejection result of CAA protests: TMC

TIL Desk/National/Kolkata/ The Trinamool Congress on Thursday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre over the rejection of West Bengal’s tableau proposal for Republic Day parade, saying it insulted the people of the state for protesting the amended Citizenship Act. The state BJP was quick to hit back and accused the TMC government of not properly following rules and procedure which it said caused the rejection.

The defence ministry had on Wednesday rejected West Bengal’s tableau proposal. The West Bengal government’s proposal was rejected after an Expert Committee examined it in two rounds of meeting, a statement by the ministry said. “The tableau proposal of the West Bengal government was not taken forward for further consideration by the expert committee after deliberations in the second meeting.

“It is pertinent to mention here that the tableau of the government of West Bengal was short-listed for participation in the Republic Day Parade 2019 as an outcome of the same process,” it said. The ministry had received 32 tableau proposals from states and union territories and 24 from central ministries and departments of which 22 proposals, comprising 16 states/UTs and 6 ministries/departments, have finally been short-listed, the statement said.