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| Battle lines drawn between rightists, leftists through vandalising statues of great leaders | | Behind the veil | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 10: Like damsels in distress those belonging to the left or the right have started attacking busts of gre at leaders of no meagre repute.It all st arted with the vandalisation of the statue of Lenin in Tripura where the BJP formed the Government on its own leaving the leftists high and dry.And this was followed by vandalising the statue of founder of Jana Sangh in West Bengal.Members of the left wing students organisation allegedly vandalised a bust of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mukherjee here and blackened its face, the West Bengal BJP has stated. Six members of the group have been detained by the police in the incident, which happened at the Keoratola crematorium. Dr B.R. Ambedkar's statue was vandalised in Meeru inUP. What was his fault? He is remembered for drafting the constitution of India and is a renowed Dalit leader.What was the fault of Mahatma Gandhi? Did not those who defiled his ststue remember that he brought freedom for India? Was that his sin or a fault?
Condemning the incident, the state BJP leadership demanded strong action against the offenders and claimed that Mukherjee's contribution to Bengal politics cannot be erased thus."We condemn the act of vandalising the statue of Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee... demand very strong action against the culprits and also want to give... message that you cannot take away the contribution of Mukherjee in building West Bengal, by this shameful act," Sayantan Basu, general secretary of West Bengal BJP said in a release.
He also said the Bharatiya Janata Party will rebuild Mukherjee's statue and with more grace.What was the fault committed by Lenin or by Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee ? No fault the fault lay in the conflict of the ideology of the leftists and the Rightists.Those who vandalized the statue of Lenin were from the RSS and the BJP.And those who vandalized the bust of Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee belonged to the leftists.
Those who were bent upon ousting the BJP put its its battle cry into practice even before an elected government could be sworn in. The overexcitement among its cadres has given way to frenzy. A statue of Lenin was overturned and several CPM offices were torched or vandalised. The BJP activists seem to have borrowed the idea of bulldozing Lenin's statue from Eastern Europe where thousands of Lenin and Marx statues were pulled down rowdily as a joyous expression of the end to a deeply prescriptive and intrusive ideology. Matters ended at that. The practice has continued in Ukraine more because it is a country deeply at odds with itself and vandalism of the other's cultural and political symbols is part of the tit-for-tat violence that has engulfed the land.
Hours after a BJP office in Tamil Nadu was attacked, party National Secretary H Raja on Wednesday expressed regret for his Facebook post that said statues of rationalist movement founder EV Ramasamy or Periyar would be razed to the ground in the state.The other day a petrol bomb was hurled at a BJP office around 500 km from here in Coimbatore by unidentified persons.
Later in a fresh Facebook post , Raja expressed his heartfelt regret for his Tuesday's post, which he claimed was a message posted by his social media administrator without his permission and hence he had removed it.Raja expressed regret if his post had hurt anybody's feelings. According to him, damaging the statues of Ramasamy is not agreeable.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed shock over the spate of incidents of violence in which busts of great leaders were vandalized.He appealed for peace and end to violence in the name of ideological disputes. Narendra Modi has strongly disapproved of incidents of vandalism reported from certain parts of the country.It said the PM spoke to Home Minister Rajnath Singh and expressed disapproval of such incidents.
The Home Ministry has asked the states to deal sternly with such acts. It also said strict action should be taken against people indulging in such acts and they be booked under relevant sections of law.
Incidents of toppling statues have been reported from certain parts of the country, the note said, without making any reference to Tripura where reports of such acts surfaced.The BJP was elected to power for the first time in the northeastern state on SaturdayWas the BJP trying to celebrate its first victory by targeting statue of Lenin in Tripura ? Or was the leftists mourning their defeat by vandalizing the Jana Sangh founders' bust and by attacking the BJP offices in West Bengal?.
It seems that West Bengal Chief Minister,Mamta Banerjee too was celebrating the defeat of the leftists.If not so she could have prevented protesters from vandalizing the bust of Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee. She did not do it and expected that her TMC would win the next election. Since the Government had not been formed in Tripura the BJP seemed a helpless lot by pulling down the statue of Lenin. |
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