Ambedkar statue ‘purified’ by RJD, Left leaders after Giriraj garlands it in Begusarai

Giriraj Singh, who was passing through an anti-CAA protest site in Sahebpur Kamal on Friday, had later garlanded the statue in the vicinity.

BJP spokesperson Nikhil Anand told The Sunday Express: “Giriraj Singh has all the right to pay tribute to Babasaheb Ambedkar. But the act of purification of the statue by Communists and the RJD is shameful and deplorable. RJD and CPI should apologise to Singh.”

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Anand said Opposition parties should bear in mind that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had come up with the ‘Panch Tirth’ in the memory of Ambedkar.

CPI secretary Satyanarayan Singh, however, said: “We have no knowledge of involvement of our leaders in such an incident. It is the culture of the BJP to do such things.”