Mamata, Mamata everywhere in R-Day tableaus rolling out today

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RAJIB CHATTERJEE: Kolkata, Jan 26 2013, 03:00 IST
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not miss herself when she will be attending the Republic Day parade in Kolkata on Saturday. After all, out of the nine tableaus that will roll out on Red Road, five will carry huge images of the Chief Minister, thereby posing the question whether the celebration of national festival has also become a tool for the Trinamool Congress government to use it as a publicity campaign for the party.

A total of 19 photographs of Mamata Banerjee are exhibited by the five tableaus. Apart from the Chief Minister, photographs of other ministers like Commerce and Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee and Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim have found places on the tableaus of various departments. The tableau of Kolkata Police tops the list as it displays 12 photographs of Mamata Banerjee including two which are more than ten feet tall.

The tableau of the state commerce and industry department carries photographs of the Chief Minister lighting the lamp during the inauguration of the second edition of Bengal Leads, an investment summit, held in Haldia last week.

The tableaus of three departments - Disaster Management, Tourism and Youth Affairs, and that of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) — however, are the exception. They don’t carry the photographs of the Chief Minister.

Debjit Ghosh, who designed the tableau of the tourism department, said he was not instructed to display the Chief Minister’s photograph. “There was no instruction from the higher ups of the department to display the CM’s photograph

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