Watch: Punjab showcases tableaux, rejected by Centre, on Republic Day 2024
Punjab's Republic Day 2024 parade was held in PAU ground, Ludhiana.
Republic Day 2024 parade, Punjab tableaux in Ludhiana news: While the Centre rejected Punjab's tableaux for Republic Day 2024, the Punjab Government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann showcased the state's tableaux, which was earlier rejected by the Central government, in Ludhiana.
Sharing the video of the same, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said, "Today, during the Republic Day parade at Ludhiana, we showed the tableaux rejected by the Center to the people... Today Punjabis living all over the world are seeing these Jhakis... You also see and tell what is wrong with them..."
Punjab's Republic Day 2024 parade was held in PAU ground, Ludhiana. Earlier, Punjab CM had announced the venue on his 'X', formerly known as Twitter, profile. He had said, "We have just made a new synthetic track in the Ludhiana stadium. We do not want the parade to cause any harm to it. There will be no parade in a ground with a synthetic track in any part of Punjab."
Earlier, CM Bhagwant Mann had alleged discrimination over the rejection of the state's tableaux to be displayed in the 2024 Republic Day parade in Delhi. However, the Defence Ministry called his claims "baseless".
Notably, Punjab and Delhi's tableaux were rejected for the Republic Day 2024 parade. Both the states had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Centre wherein the states agreed to display those in the Republic Day 2024 parade in one of the three years starting January 26, 2024, the Defence Ministry sources had stated.
Earlier, the tableaux of Punjab and Delhi were last displayed in 2022 and 2021. As per sources, the states that were not selected for the Republic Day 2022 Parade were invited to showcase their tableaux in Bharat Parv at Red Fort in Delhi between January 23 and 31.
Likewise, there were allegations that the non-BJP states were being dropped from the parade.
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