Guwahati : After Kolkata, unidentified persons had now damaged and defaced a statue of BJP ideologue Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in Lower Assam’s Kokrajhar district.
The incident took place at Rabindra Nagar area in Kokrajhar town on Tuesday night.
Police has started investigation, but failed to arrest any person who involved with it.
Local people had condemned the act and demanded to arrest the culprits.
The incident follows toppling of damaging statues of Communist icon Vladimir Lenin in Tripura, social reformer Periyar in Tamil Nadu, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in Kolkata.
Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal strongly condemned the
act of vandalism in which a bust of noted political thinker and academician Shyama Prasad Mookerjee.
In a statement, the Assam CM said that the incident is very condemnable and the Government would not tolerate such incidents.
He directed the Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police of Kokrajhar district to take stern action and book the miscreants who were indulged in the act under relevant provisions of law.
He also directed the administration to step up vigil and take all necessary measures to prevent such acts of vandalism.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
