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27th, January, 2022

Topic: Punjab’s Tableau

Importance: Punjab PCS Prelims

What is the news?

The Punjab tableau on the theme “The Punjab’s Contribution to the Struggle for Freedom” was selected by the Ministry of the Union of the Interior (MHA) for the 73rd Republic Day Parade in New Delhi.

Important:

The Punjab Tableaux-2022 performing arts’ team has clinched the third position in the folk-dance competition organized by the ministry of defense at Rashtriya Rangshala Camp in Delhi, as part of Republic Day celebrations.
Maharashtra took first place and Uttar Pradesh took second place.

Important Points:

Punjab’s tableau’s tractor part will have statues of freedom fighters Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev as depicted in the gallery design of the Jang-e-Azadi memorial-cum-museum established at Kartarpur in Jalandhar district.

In the trailer part of the tableau, the state will have screens to showcase the scene of the British police lathicharge on peaceful protests led-by Lala Lajpat Rai in Lahore on October 30, 1928, against the members of the Simon Commission, in which Rai had received grievous injuries ultimately leading to his death.

On another screen, the state tableau will showcase the trial court scene of Shaheed Udham Singh, who avenged the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919, by firing bullets at former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab Michael O’Dwyer in London’s Caxton Hall on March 13, 1940, killing him. The back part of the state tableau’s trailer will also have ‘Shaheed-e-Minar’ as has been erected in Jang-e-Azadi memorial-cum-museum.

Punjab’s tableau has been selected consecutively for the sixth year for the Republic Day parade. It was in 2017 that Punjab’s tableau themed on folk dance ‘Jago’ was selected for the R-Day parade in 2017. In 2018, the state’s tableau based on the theme ‘Sangat and Pangat’ (congregation and community kitchen known as Guru ka Langar) participated.

State’s tableau that showcased Jallianwala Bagh’s history won the third prize in 2019. Whereas in 2020, the MHA had selected Punjab’s tableau themed on first Sikh master Guru Nanak Dev’s teachings of Kirat Karo (Work Hard and Honestly), Naam Japo (Always Remember God), Vand Chhako (Share with Needy). Punjab’s last year’s Republic Day parade tableau was themed on the 400th birth anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur.