Ambedkar statue defiled in Azamgarh, Savarkar’s in Maharashtra

Unidentified miscreants desecrated statues of BR Ambedkar and Vinayak Savarkar in UP’s Azamgah and Maharashtra’s Aurangabad, respectively, on Saturday even as junior home minister Kiren Rijiju warned in Patna that no one would be spared for such vandalism in the country.
The statue of Ambedkar was found vandalized in Raja Patti village in Azamgarh district. Police are yet to make any arrests.


Given the sensitivity of the issue, more cops were deployed in the village.


The Ambedkar statue vandalised in Raja Patti village of Azamgarh

‘Trend not good for party or country’

Azamgarh SP (rural) NP Singh said, “An FIR against unidentified persons has been registered. People involved in vandalizing the statue would be nabbed soon.” Burhanpur tehsildar Ambika Chowdhary said a new statue of Ambedkar would be installed in place of the damaged one.

In Aurangabad, Savarkar’s statue situated near a makeshift police control room was vandalized, causing much embarrassment to the administration.

Without naming BJP, fourterm Shiv Sena MP Chandrakant Khaire said after the new government came to power, statues of Lenin were pulled down in Tripura and this had resulted in a spate of defilement of statues of great people across the country. “The trend is neither good for the political party, nor for the country,” he said.

In Patna, Rijiju told reporters that the Centre had issued an advisory to state governments to take strong action against those found guilty of damaging statues of leaders.