This was decided at a meeting of officials of the Information and Cultural Affairs department on Monday.

The meeting was held following the fiasco on garlanding Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s portrait - kept in front of the chief minister’s chamber at Writers’ Buildings on January 23 - on his birthday.

It was only after Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee pointed out that the portrait had neither been cleaned nor garlanded, that Chief Secretary Asok Mohan Chakrabarti and Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen had garlanded the portrait. Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee, on the instructions of party leader Mamata Banerjee, had also rushed to the Writers’ to garland the portrait twice.

The chief minister later called it a “miss” and promised that such goof-ups would not be repeated.

However, an investigation conducted by The Indian Express showed that it has never been the practice of the state government to garland all portraits kept in front of the chief minister’s chamber at Writers’. This was precisely because the state government officially holds the garlanding ritual at public places.

For instance, the government holds a function to pay tribute to Netaji at a statue at the crossing of Red Road and Eden Gardens. Rabindranath Tagore’s brith anniversary is also observed in a similar fashion at functions held at Rabindra Sadan.