patna bihar tableau will be missing again on the historic rajpath during the republic day parade this time also for the last two years bihar has not been represented in the rday paradealthough bihar government had sent three themes for the selection they were shershah suri the pride of bihar chhath festival worship of the sun god and rajgir the historical and cultural heritage of bihar but the national experts committee of the rday parade did not chose any of these themes for its final selectioninformation and public relation department iprd secretary vivek k singh told toi that in the first round the selection committee had shortlisted shershah suri theme for rday but we have not got any response till day about its final selection singh saidhe also said as many as 15 tableaus were selected for the rday parade but bihar is known for its best thematic tableau during rday parade since long mahasweta maharathi who has served as one of the members of the national selection committee of the rday tableau committee for consecutive eight years 19962004 strongly feels tableau should speak for the subject in itself in a powerful mannermaharathi lone member from bihar said poor presentation would have been one of the reasons for rejection of any tableauway back in 1989 the then defence minister k c pant in a letter to then bihar cm s n sinha had lauded bihars tableau shrameyva jayate pant in a letter to cm said the tableau presented by the government of bihar at the rday parade 1989 entitled shrameyva jayate sought to bring out the selfemployment of women engaged in the production of handicrafts while the tableau did not win a prize it was neatly and aesthetically executedthis tableau had created a history of sorts the entire tableau handicraft work was done by bihari craftsmen normally tableaus are made by only contractors more than 50 mithila painters weavers including chandra kala devi kumudini devi and shanti devi were engaged in making the tableau some of the art pieces of the tableau are still the property of delhis famous craft museumbihars champaran movement would figure in the tableau of centenary homage to a movement unique 100 years of satyagraha at the rday parade on september 11 1906 a movement was launched in johannesburg south africathe episode depicts a scene from the famous champaran satyagraha of 1917 wherein gandhiji is seen delivering the historic trial speech at the motihari east champaran district headquarters court with other satyagrahis surrounding himnoted designer and fabricator bappa chakravorty had designed the unique 100 years of satyagrah tableau chakravorty a kolkatabased leading tableau designer had also designed the rday tableau on the famous silk industry of bhagalpur in 2002