Tussle over Baba Saheb statue in Rajasthan: Congress MLA climbs on BJP leader’s vehicle |Watch

On Sunday, a nameplate with the names of Meena and a few other Congress workers was put on the statue.

The issue of putting a nameplate on a BR Ambedkar statue at Bonli town turned  into a fight between local Congress and BJP leaders in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district.

The tussle, which lasted for around two hours, saw Congress’s Bamanwas MLA Indira Meena allegedly climbing on the BJP mandal president Hanumat Dixit’s car. In the video, which has been circulated online, Meena climbed on Dixit’s car shouting “BJP hai to gundaraj ho gaya kya tumhara (you’re indulging in hooliganism because the BJP is in power).”

According to a report by Indian Express, a statue of Ambedkar was unveiled in Bonli two years ago. On Sunday, a nameplate with the names of Meena and a few other Congress workers was put on the statue.

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When BJP workers discovered this, Dixit and other leaders reached the spot, asked the Congress leaders to remove it.

“We inaugurated the statue during our government under former CM Ashok Gehlot. The municipality was doing the beautification of the circle, and a nameplate was put on the statue. It states that I helped with the construction. BJP party workers who were drunk came to the site around 9 pm on Sunday and started misbehaving with labourers. They forcefully removed the nameplate and disrupted work. When I was called, I confronted the BJP workers. Police are under the control of the state government, and they did not do anything when the BJP workers were misbehaving, so I had to deal with it,” Meena told Indian Express.

Meanwhile, the 134th birth anniversary celebration of Bharat Ratna Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar was organised by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment at Rajasthan International Center (RIC) on Monday.  Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma was also present at the event.