DMK MLA T.R.B. Raja who also recently took over as the head of the party’s IT wing, shared a picture of Karnataka’s tableau with an insulting innuendo.
In his tweet, he shared a picture of Hindu God Kamadhenu who is also highly revered in Karnataka, saying “which freedom fighter is this?”
Which #FreedomFighter is this 🧐!!!#RepublicDay pic.twitter.com/ImKJMEbbTH
— Dr. T R B Rajaa (@TRBRajaa) January 26, 2022
Recently, the DMK and its sympathizers in the media have been creating a fuss that Central government ‘rejected’ Tamil Nadu’s tableau from being part of the Republic Day Parade.
A clarification was issued by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh that tableaus are selected by an expert committee through a rigorous selection process and also pointed out that Tamil Nadu’s tableau was part of the parade in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Despite the clarification, the DMK has been playing politics over the matter with CM Stalin announcing that the allegedly ‘rejected’ tableau would be part of the Republic Day celebration in Tamil Nadu.
In light of this, the DMK has also been taking a jibe at the tableau of other states especially those that portrays Hindu culture.
DMK MLA from Mannargudi T.R.B. Rajaa (son of DMK MP T.R. Baalu) posted the tweet with an insulting innuendo.
However, the picture that the DMK MLA shared was that of 2013 when the DMK was part of the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre. This year, Karnataka’s tableau had depicted the theme of ‘Karnataka: The cradle of traditional Handicrafts’ with 16 GI tagged traditional handicrafts of the state featured in the tableau and a large bust of the ‘Mother of Traditional Handicrafts in India‘ Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay placed at the rear of the tableau.
73 ನೇ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ ದಿನಾಚರಣೆ ಅಂಗವಾಗಿ ನವದೆಹಲಿಯ ರಾಜಪಥದಲ್ಲಿ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಪಾರಂಪರಿಕ ಕರಕುಶಲ ವಸ್ತುಗಳ ತೊಟ್ಟಿಲುʼ ವಿಷಯಾಧಾರಿತ ಸ್ತಬ್ಧ ಚಿತ್ರ.#RepublicDay2022 pic.twitter.com/zf0BbOhxYg
— Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 (@Rajeev_GoI) January 26, 2022
The DMK MLA had also retweeted tweets that mocked Uttarakhand’s tableau which had model of Badrinath Temple along with a sadhu.
Also Mr.@TRBRajaa above tableau is of Karnataka Govt.’s 2013 Republic Day during UPA Govt. at the Center & your #DMK was part of the Central Govt. If your party is against such a tableau you should’ve spoken it then?? Oh wait, holding on to Ministries were important? Understood.
— SG Suryah (@SuryahSG) January 26, 2022
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