Statue vandalism continues, another Periyar effigy attacked in Tamil Nadu
Chennai, Mar 20 (IBNS): In another instance of statue vandalism which started after BJP's win in Tripura, an effigy of Dravidian icon EVR Ramasamy, also known as Periyar, has been attacked by some unknown miscreants in Tamil Nadu's Pudukkottai, media reports said.
The police have filed a case against unknown culprits and an investigation is underway.
The latest attack on Periyar's statue is an extension of the repeated vandalism on effigies in several parts of the country post BJP-win in Tripura.
A day after BJP's victory in the northeastern state, several BJP-RSS workers had pulled down Communist revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin's statue in Tripura's Belonia town.
The incident was followed by the vandalism on Periyar's statue in Vellore.
The vandalisation took place following Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader H Raja's controversial Facebook post where he had threatened the Dravidian icon.
The glasses and the nose of Periyar's statue were damaged.
Raja had however said the post on his Facebook was shared inadvertently by someone else.
Later, Bharatiya Janata Party's predecessor organization Bharatiya Jana Sangh's founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee's statue was also vandalised in Kolkata.
In another incident in Kolkata on Monday, the name in Shyama Prasad Mukherjee's statue was distorted by some unknown persons in the prestigious Presidency University.
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