EC makes elaborate security for first phase LS polls in 8 UP seats today
The 8 seats where polling would be held in the first phase include Saharanpur, Bijnor, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Nagina, Moradabad, Rampur, and Pilibhit.
The Delhi Police has tightened security around key statues in the national capital as a precautionary measure in the wake of desecration of statues of communist icon Vladimir Lenin and Dravidian movement founder E V Ramasamy Periyar.
A senior police officer said the force had taken note of the incidents and SHOs of various police stations had been alerted to keep a vigil.
He said no specific alert had been received about the possibility of such incidents here but the move was a precautionary measure.
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The bust of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee was damaged by activists of Left-leaning outfit ‘Radical’ in south Kolkata today.
The incident came close on the heels of the razing of statue of Lenin in Tripura and the desecration of a bust of Periyar in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore.
A statue of B R Ambedkar was damaged by unidentified people in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut yesterday, triggering protests by Dalits.
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