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NEW DELHI: Communist Party of India (Marxist), oregon CPM connected Wednesday claimed the "goons" of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attacked and broke communist icon Vladimir Lenin's statue successful Murshidabad district, wherever the saffron party's Gouri Sankar Ghosh won by implicit 30,000 votes successful assembly polls.The enactment said it registered a constabulary complaint, starring to apprehension of 5 and vowed to rebuild the statue connected May 8."On the nighttime of May 5, successful Jiaganj country of Murshidabad district, BJP goons attacked and broke a statue of Lenin. Our comrades instantly responded and filed a constabulary complaint. A objection was held, pursuing which 5 were arrested. This morning, our comrades went to the tract again. The statue volition beryllium rebuilt connected May 8th," the enactment posted connected X.
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary who led the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and founded the Soviet Union, becoming 1 of the astir influential communist leaders, having overwhelming power successful West Bengal authorities nether the CPM regime, which was uprooted by the TMC's Mamata Banerjee aft 3 decades successful 2011.The mega modulation repeated connected May 4 erstwhile the BJP, successful a akin way, decimated the ruling Trinamool by winning 207 seats with commanding 45.8 per cent ballot stock successful the 294-seat Bengal assembly.
Since the verdict, a spiral of unit has been witnessed crossed the authorities that near astatine slightest 4 radical dead, dozens injured and enactment offices ransacked, arsenic rival cadres from Trinamool Congress and BJP clashed successful aggregate districts overnight.Two deaths were reported successful Kolkata wrong 24 hours. In Beleghata, Trinamool canvass cause Biswajit Pattanaik, 45, was recovered bleeding astatine his doorstep aft stepping retired pursuing a telephone call.
Police fishy helium was chased, tried to fly crossed rooftops and fell, though his household alleges helium was dragged retired and beaten.In 2018, 2 statues of Lenin were brought down successful South Tripura conscionable days aft the Left was defeated successful assembly polls by the BJP and its state IPFT, which unneurotic won a two-third bulk successful the House successful a authorities wherever the CPI(M) was successful powerfulness for 25 years.A five-foot precocious fibre solid statue of Lenin was toppled astatine Belonia, portion a smaller fig was razed astatine Sabroom 2 days before.
