Plaque with names of dy CM, Noida MP found broken

GREATER NOIDA: Hours after it was put up along a road in Dankaur, a plaque carrying the names of UP's deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and Noida MP Mahesh Sharma was found broken. The plaque was installed ahead of the beginning of the repair work of a broken 5km road from Sikandrabad-Dankaur to Derin Gujran village, triggering rumours that it was a fallout of anger among the villagers against the local BJP politicians. The plaque was installed before the Rs 13 lakh worth repairs started.
Last year too, Derin Gujran residents boycotted BJP politicians over the lack of basic amenities in the village. Police said they received an information about the incident late on Wednesday evening and they found that the freshly cemented plaque was uprooted from the spot and broken. "We suspect it was the handwork of some mischievous elements," Dankaur SHO Arvind Pradhan said.
Local BJP politicians were quick to distance themselves from the incident.
Akhilesh Pradhan, the district social media in-charge of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, told TOI, "I got to know about the incident in the evening when some reporters asked me about it. The incident pertains to about 1.5 kilometres away from our village." Police said that they have received no complaint from the local BJP unit so far. The incident comes a month after some locals allegedly smeared black ink on the name of the UP chief minister on a plaque installed below a statue of ninth-century king Mihir Bhoj at a college in Dadri, which had led to a face-off between the Gujjar and Rajput communities.