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Miscreants vandalise Mayawati's statue in Lucknow | | Miscreants vandalised a marble statue of former
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati in Gomti
Nagar area in Lucknow on Thursday. Amit Jani, chief of a regional radical outfit
Uttar Pradesh Navnirman Sena, who claimed responsibility for the incident asked
the state government to remove statues of Mayawati immediately. "The Uttar Pradesh
Navnirman Sena requests the Akhilesh Yadav Government that the statues of Mayawati
in Lucknow and Noida which are a black spot on the state's image should be removed
immediately," said Jani. The police has detained three persons in this regard.
The miscreants broke the head and damaged the arms of the nearly four-feet high
statue of Mayawati. The BSP workers protested at a number of places in the state,
including Jhansi , Ambedkar Nagar, Deoria, Muzaffarnagar and Kanpur , following
the incident. |
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