Periyar statue vandalised hours after BJP leader's post
March 06, 2018 22:53
Hours after Bharatiya Janata Party leader H Raja threatened that statues of social reformer E V Ramasamy, popularly known as Periyar, too would be pulled down -- after a statue of Vladimir Lenin was razed in Tripura -- a group of men vandalised a Periyar statue at a municipal corporation office in Tamil Nadu's Vellore, an NDTV report says.
The report says the statue of Periyar, located inside the Tirupattur corporation office, was targeted around 9 pm.
'The glasses and nose of the statue were damaged. The police have arrested two men,' it says.
Earlier in the day, a row erupted in Tamil Nadu over H Raja's remarks indicating that statues of Periyar could be the next to be pulled down.
As the comments in a Facebook post against late Ramasamy, founder of the Dravidian movement, drew condemnation from several political parties in the state, Raja deleted it while BJP's state unit distanced itself from the issue, saying it was his personal view.
Read the full report.
IMAGE: Dr B R Ambedkar with E V Ramasamy 'Periyar'. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons
The report says the statue of Periyar, located inside the Tirupattur corporation office, was targeted around 9 pm.
'The glasses and nose of the statue were damaged. The police have arrested two men,' it says.
Earlier in the day, a row erupted in Tamil Nadu over H Raja's remarks indicating that statues of Periyar could be the next to be pulled down.
As the comments in a Facebook post against late Ramasamy, founder of the Dravidian movement, drew condemnation from several political parties in the state, Raja deleted it while BJP's state unit distanced itself from the issue, saying it was his personal view.
Read the full report.
IMAGE: Dr B R Ambedkar with E V Ramasamy 'Periyar'. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons
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