BJP will take action against its workers destroying statues: Amit Shah
New Delhi, Mar 7 (IBNS): In the wake of the the reports of vandalisation of statues of ideological leaders, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah has warned that his party will take strict actions against anyone indulging in such activities.
Shah's reaction came after Communist Revolutionary leader Lenin's (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) and Dravidian icon Periyar's (EVR Ramasamy) statues were vandalised in Tripura and Tamil Nadu, respectively, by BJP workers.
Shah in a tweet said: "I have spoken to the party units in both Tamil Nadu and Tripura. Any person associated with the BJP found to be involved with destroying any statue will face severe action from the party."
"The BJP will always remain committed to ideals of openness and constructive politics through which we can positively impact people’s lives as well as build a New India.," he said in a follow up tweet.
A day after Lenin's statue was pulled down in Tripura, two drunk men had vandalised the statue of Dravidian icon Periyar in Vellore of Tamil Nadu.
The vandalisation took place following Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader H Raja's controversial Facebook post where he had threatened the Dravidian icon.
The pair of glasses and nose of Periyar's statue were damaged.
The police have arrested two men - one is a BJP member and the other a CPI worker - in connection with the incident.
Raja had however said the post on his Facebook was shared inadvertently by someone else.
A day before the development in Vellore, a statue of Lenin was brought down by some BJP workers in Tripura, where the 25-year long Left government was dethroned on Saturday.
To protest the vandalization of Lenin statue in Tripura, at least six persons, who claimed to be students of Kolkata's prestigious Jadavpur University and activists of ultra-Left student outfit RADICAL, gathered at a park beside Keoratala crematorium under Kalighat Police Station in south part of the city at around 8 a.m. and they tried to damage the statue with hammers.
Shouting anti-BJP slogans, they smeared Shyama Prasad Mukherjee's face with black ink.
Locals caught the protesters and called in the police.
Senior officials from nearby Kalighat Police Station rushed to the scene and detained the agitators.
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