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A statue of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar was on Friday found vandalised at a village in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand.
According to the police, the incident has sparked tension in the area as people from the Dalit community started protesting. A district official said the miscreants damaged the statue in Kanhawaali village at night. Inspector Bhagwan Mehar and Sub-Divisional Magistrate Kaustubh Mishra visited the spot to pacify protesters, mostly Dalits.
Authorities said the statue of Ambedkar was damaged in the past too, adding that a dispute was on between two villagers over the land on which it had been installed.
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It can’t be confirmed whether the case is linked to the ongoing statue vandalism in various parts of the country or not.
The statue vandalism had taken a turn for worse after the statue of Vladimir Lenin was razed and the statue of rationalist leader EV Ramasamy, popularly known as ‘Periyar’, was vandalised on Tuesday in Vellore.
In other reports, a statue of BR Ambedkar was splashed with paint in Chennai on Wednesday night. The culprits behind the act are yet to be identified by the police.
In the Meerut city of Uttar Pradesh also, Ambedkar’s statue was damaged.
(With agency inputs)
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