Statue to cover up rejection of Netaji tableau: Trinamool

The Trinamool Congress has said the decision to instal Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's statue in the canopy that housed King George V's statue, in the vicinity of India Gate, was "an attempt to hide Bengal's tableau controversy."

Calling it "hypocrisy," senior Trinamool Lok Sabha MP Saugata Roy said, "it is an attempt to sweep the Netaji tableau controversy under the carpet. We are happy about the statues but protest the decision to reject the tableau."

In 1971, PM Indira Gandhi inaugurated the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate. In 2019, a war memorial was set up for martyrs who died after that. "Both the "Amar Jawan Jyoti" and War memorial should have been kept separately," Roy opined. The cultural heritage of the country is being twisted by removing Amar Jawan Jyot, he alleged.