Chennai: City police have placed the security of five levels ahead of the R-Day celebration.
At least 6,800 police personnel have been deployed all the time to ensure the peace parade is held in Kamarajar Salai.
The Governor of RN Ravi will lift Tricolor at the flagpole near the Statue of Gandhi in Kamarajar Salai on Wednesday.
While the Republican Day Parade is not open to the public, the focus will be in the Tableaux said by Minister M K Starin will be part of the country’s R-Day events.
For security, police personnel have been deployed in public meeting places such as airports, train stations, terminus buses, commercial complexes, beaches and temples in the city.
Police and other uniformed personnel do exercises on Kamarajar Salai for R-Day events.
Full exercise dressed on Monday morning.
Following the row of Tableaux Tamil Nadu’s refusal featuring freedom fighters for the R-Day parade in New Delhi, the state government has planned to display Tableaux in the parade to be held in Chennai.
Three floats on the theme – Tamil Nadu in Freedom’s struggle – will display icons such as Subramania Bharati, Vo Chidambaram, Velu Nachiyar and Maruthu Pandiyar Brothers.
The whole event has been planned only 35 minutes.
There will be no presentation for government departments and cultural events by school and college students this year.