Statue vandalisation: Mamata Banerjee unveils new bust of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Kolkata, June 11 (IBNS): Less than a month since the statue was vandalised, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday unveiled the new bust of 19th century Bengali reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar at Vidyasagar College in north Kolkata.
The bust of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was destroyed during a clash between Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party workers near the college last month.
The incident occurred just days before Kolkata voted in the last phase of the Lok Sabha polls.
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On Tuesday, Mamata Banerjee marched to the college with the new bust in an open jeep and then installed it in the place where the earlier one was present.
Amid the blame game between the BJP and Trinamool Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 16 promised to build Bengali's social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's statue days after a bust of the icon was vandalised.
The BJP and Trinamool had been accusing each other over the vandalisation of Vidyasagar's bust.
After alleging that the bust was vandalised by the Trinamool men, Modi promised to install the statue of "panchdhatu" while addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh 's Mau.
Mamata Banerjee, who is having a huge face-off with Modi now, had hit back the Prime Minister for his comment.
"Can he bring back the heritage? Such a liar. He should do sit ups for speaking lies," Banerjee said in a tone accusing the saffron party of destroying the bust.
The vandalisation of the bust took place after a scuffle between the BJP and Trinamool men broke outside the Calcutta University in Kolkata's College Street area through which saffron party president Amit Shah's mega roadshow was passing.
While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee sharply attacked the saffron party, Shah had said the ruling party hatched a conspiracy to win the "lost Lok Sabha polls".
The BJP won 18 seats in the Lok Sabha Polls in West Bengal. The TMC managed to keep 22 seats. It had won 34 in 2014 general polls.
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