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Chandigarh: The Bharatiya Janata party president for Punjab cadre Sunil Jakhar of Thursday lashed out at Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for not taking action regarding the vandalism of a statue of BR Ambedkar in Amritsar.
Speaking with the media Sunil Jakhar accused accused Mann of only focusing on protecting the AAP government in Punjab
He also said that Bhagwant Mann does not care about the insult of Babasaheb Ambedkar but only cares about saving AAP’s government in Punjab. BR Ambedkar’s statue is not just a statue, it is an ideology of the creator of the Constitution.
This comes after a youth on Republic Day vandalised the life-size statue of Ambedkar in Amritsar by climbing atop it and striking it with a hammer. A video of the incident had gone viral on social media.
Jakhar further accused Mann of misleading the people of Punjab, questioning how the state government could have allowed such an act.
“This is not a small deed, you are misleading the people of Punjab. How could the government of Punjab bend before the extremists… Bhagwant Mann has lost the right to put photos of Babasaheb Ambedkar and Shaheed Bhagat Singh…” he said.
On Tuesday, Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal sought an apology from the AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal after the incident.
“Kejriwal ji should apologise to the nation. There is an AAP government in Punjab and the statue of Baba Saheb Ambedkar was vandalised in front of everyone. He should apologise,” said Meghwal while talking to the media on Tuesday.
