UDAIPUR, May 7 (TIWN): Udaipur, erstwhile capital of Tripura is being decorated for celebration of Tagore’s 155th birthday at ‘Rajarshi Mukta Mancha’ in Old Royal palace, Udaipur.

Like every year a big fair namely “Rajaarshi Mela” will be held on May 9 (Bengali- Baishakh 25) to remind Tagore and his undying relation with Tripura’s kings on his 155th birthday. This “Rajarshi Mela” is commemorating in Old Royal Palace of Udaipur since many years and like every year the Panchayat of Rajnagar area, is directing the preparatory works to make this fair successful. Many governmental stalls are going to be set-up and as a result the preparation is on the high now. When TIWN visited that place on wednesday, many labors were found busy in various works as making stalls, clearing the field and also to arrange the stage. Decorators to light men everyone was working with full vigor and ardor under the burning sun of May. 

It has been said that Tagore had a very pleasant relation with King Birchandra Manikya which inspired him to pen “Rajarshi” (The Saintly King) and “Visharjan” (Immersion). These two stories are in actually brews of fiction and reality, which till now creates curiosity among the people from far distance to visit Tripura for once in life. Unfortunately like the maximum historical places of Tripura this place has also lost its charms due to the negligence of Tourism department of Tripura and a single statue of Tagore, which is being placed over there is unable to describe Tagore’s adjacent relation with the Old Royal Palace and its kings.

Many dignitaries will come on May 9 to deliver their “valuable” speeches on Tagore on his 155^th birthday, and for one year they will forget about the place as like DM Sonal Goel forgot Ashutosh Chakraborty (95), the old priest of Mata Bhuwaneswari, in the Bhuwaneswari temple of Udaipur Royal Palace. The stature of Mata Bhuwaneswari was the theme of Tagore’s story “Visharjan”.

 It is to be mentioned that after king’s era everything had been vanished over there, except the worshipping of Mata Bhuwaneswari which is maintaining by Ashutosh Chakraborty since forty years. He demanded a fully made temple for Mata Bhuwaneswari which was started but the work stopped when Swapan Saha (Former DM of Udaipur) had been transferred, and  present DM Sonal Goel’s promises are useless.

While talking to TIWN correspondent, Ashutosh Chakraborty said that DM Sonal Goel has recently again said to him to wait for few days till the bill would be sanctioned for this purpose. Now the question is if already the work had been started from Swapan Saha’s time and he went without finishing the work where the already “sanctioned money” of that time has gone?

Hence, who cares for the poor people and dead kings? Our leaders and politicians are used to live in the present, but not in past.