The Central Government has accepted West Bengal’s tableau theme of ‘Gandhi-Tagore’ unity for the Republic day parade this year.
The Bengal tableau showcases ‘Shantiniketan and Gandhi at Beliaghata’ as the theme revolving around two father figures, Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.
West Bengal’s CM has conceived the theme remembering Gandhi meeting Tagore in March 1915 at Tagore’s ‘Shyamoli’ home.
Background
This is for the first time when the Defense ministry had selected the theme of the tableaus for the Republic Day Parade.
Gandhiji was selected as the theme to mark the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary.