U.P. Govt to build protective walls around Ambedkar statues: CM Adityanath

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, speaks during an lawsuit successful Gorakhpur. File Photo: X/@GorakhnathMndr via ANI

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) said the State Government volition physique protective bound walls astir statues of Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar to safeguard them from vandalism.

Mr. Adityanath made the remarks portion addressing the 'Mahaparinirvaan Diwas' (death anniversary) programme of Baba Saheb Ambedkar successful Lucknow connected Saturday.

"Wherever statues of B.R. Ambedkar are installed successful Uttar Pradesh, immoderate mischievous elements often travel and vandalise these statues,” helium said.

"They marque malicious attempts to harm them. Now, our authorities volition make a strategy to support these statues by constructing a bound partition astir them," Mr. Adityanath added.

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"If a statue does not person a extortion implicit it, a canopy volition beryllium installed to guarantee the harmless and respectful extortion of Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar's statue," Mr. Adityanath said.

He besides said that the authorities volition implicit connecting each slum, Dalit settlement, Scheduled Caste colony and tribal colony with due connectivity, if immoderate areas are inactive near unconnected.

Although the Rural Development Department and the Urban Development Department person worked to implicit these, if immoderate areas stay unconnected, "we volition guarantee that they are afloat connected", helium said.

Published - December 06, 2025 03:03 p.m. IST

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