In Punjab, open wounds from hit jobs on Ambedkar statues

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Punjab constabulary  unit   keeping vigil adjacent   the Ambedkar statue that was vandalised by chartless  miscreants at Nurpur Jattan village
in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. 

Punjab constabulary unit keeping vigil adjacent the Ambedkar statue that was vandalised by chartless miscreants at Nurpur Jattan village in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab.  | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy

On the outskirts of the quiescent Nurpur Jattan colony successful Punjab’s Hoshiarpur territory is simply a humble yellowish structure. Mounted upon it is simply a statue of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar successful a solid enclosure. On March 30, the statue was desecrated, triggering contiguous outrage among villagers and members of Dalit groups.

The statue was repaired wrong a fewer days, but the wounds of Punjab’s Dalit assemblage stay raw. Two constabulary officers present basal defender circular the timepiece to forestall a repetition of the incident. Dalits saw the onslaught connected the statue arsenic yet different enactment of provocation meant to fracture Punjab’s societal cloth for governmental and monetary gains. Last year, the aforesaid statue of the icon of the Dalit rights question was vandalised.

Published - April 12, 2026 06:52 americium IST

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