Another Ambedkar statue vandalised in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow April 13 (IANS) A day before the 127th birth anniversary of Dalit icon Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar another of his statue s was vandalised in Gajna village in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh police said on Friday.

Officials said the two-feet statue of the Dalit leader was taken off the pedestal on which it had been installed. As a result his legs came off while the shoes of the statue remained stuck to the brick-concrete pedestal.

The police said they were looking for the miscreants behind the act.

Over half-a-dozen incidents of Ambedkar s statues being vandalised have taken place in various parts of the state over the last one month.

Only a day ago the police had sounded an alert across Uttar Pradesh for possible attempts to damage the statues of the Dalit stalwart and the chief architect of India s constitution ahead of his birth anniversary on April 14.

Ambedkar s statues were vandalised in Meerut Budayun Saharanpur Firozabad and Bulandshahr in March triggering angry protests from the opposition Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party.

--IANS
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