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Tension gripped the Vedurukuppam and surrounding mandals of Chittoor territory successful Andhra Pradesh, aft unidentified persons vandalised the statue of Ambedkar and acceptable occurrence to it astatine Devalampeta colony successful the aboriginal hours of Friday (October 3, 2025).
According to information, the miscreants poured petrol connected the statue and its surrounding robust bars and pedestal, and acceptable it connected fire. The villagers who noticed the occurrence rushed to the spot and tried to douse the flames.
Immediately aft the incident, hundreds of villagers of assorted hamlets staged a protestation connected the roads. Traffic connected agrarian roads towards Puttur, Pallipattu, and Kothapallimitta was disrupted arsenic aggravated protestors resorted to rastha-rokos, demanding contiguous apprehension of the culprits down the vandalism.
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Additional forces from Chittoor, Puttur, and Nagari were deployed astatine respective villages of Vedurukuppam, Karveti Nagaram, and S.R. Puram mandals of the Gangadhara Nellore Assembly constituency (SC Reserved).
District Collector Sumit Kumar and Superintendent of Police Tushar Dudi rushed to Devalampeta and convened a gathering with the assemblage elders, appealing for peace.
