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Ghungrala and different neighboring villages nether the Hafizpur constabulary presumption limits successful Hapur territory of Uttar Pradesh remained tense connected Saturday (June 13, 2026) aft a statue of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was vandalised by miscreants successful the intervening night. Villagers, mostly Dalits, held a sit-in protestation astatine the tract demanding the strictest enactment against the culprits.
Senior territory constabulary officials and section constabulary teams reached the spot, reinstalled the statue, convinced the demonstrators of due enactment implicit the incident, and assured them that specified an incidental would not recur. Afterwards, the objection was called disconnected by the protestors.
A ample fig of constabulary unit are presently contiguous successful the country to forestall immoderate untoward incident.
A lawsuit has been registered nether applicable sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The constabulary are scrutinising CCTV footage and different physics worldly to nab the culprits.
Congress leaders and Dalit societal groups besides sat connected a dharna with the villagers astatine the spot. “If the accused are not caught, we volition beryllium forced to motorboat a large movement,” said Vikas Gautam, a resident.
“On receiving accusation that the statue of Dr. Ambedkar was partially damaged by immoderate miscreant nether the Hafizpur constabulary presumption area, elder officials instantly reached the spot and inspected the incidental site. A lawsuit has been registered nether due sections successful the matter; probe is nether mode and meaningful efforts are being made to guarantee the aboriginal apprehension of the culprits, the statue has been reinstalled,” Station House Officer of Hafizpur Police Station told The Hindu.
‘Organised pattern’
Opposition parties described the incidental arsenic portion of an organised signifier to humiliate the Dalit community. “It is simply a signifier nether which feudal forces, supported by the BJP government, indulge successful specified acts to demoralise the Dalit population. Attacks connected statues of Dr. Ambedkar are rampant nether the BJP regime; this is simply a implicit nonaccomplishment of instrumentality and order,” elder U.P. Congress person Anil Yadav said.
“We powerfully condemn the vandalism of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s statue successful Hapur. This is an affront to the values of equality, dignity, and justness enshrined successful our Constitution. We impulse a swift, impartial probe and strict enactment against those responsible. We besides entreaty to each citizens to stay calm and uphold bid and harmony. As those committed to the thought of ‘PDA’ (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpasankhyak), the marginalized, the deprived, and each sections seeking justice, we reaffirm that Babasaheb’s ideals beryllium to each Indian and indispensable beryllium protected without compromise. India’s spot lies successful its unity and law values; these indispensable usher our effect astatine each times,” Samajwadi Party (SP) spokesperson Nasser Salim said.
Ajay Kumar Lallu, a elder Congress leader, alleged that the vandalism was aimed astatine sending a connection successful nine that the symbols and the self-respect of Dalits and marginalised communities volition beryllium crushed. “The vandalisation of a statue linked to Ambedkar, who is an icon of marginalized communities, has not happened for the archetypal time; if you look backmost successful the past 1 year, astatine slightest 20 specified instances from antithetic parts of the State person travel successful the nationalist domain,” Mr. Lallu said .
