Bhilwara: Some unidentified miscreants vandalised the statue of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in Shahpura town of Bhilwara district on Monday and a case has been registered against them.
“The effigy of Mukherjee was vandalised by unidentified persons late night on Sunday. Teams have been formed to investigate the matter,” Shahpura police station in-charge Bhajan Lal told news agency ANI.
District collector Rajendra Bhatt, police officer Harendra Magawar and other officials investigated the area.
According to locals, the statue was vandalised after the abrogation of the special status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir.
“Mukherjee was the first person to protest against the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. This could be the reason why it was demolished,” said a local.
With the help of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, in 1951. Mukherjee was strongly opposed to Article 370[a] seeing it as a threat to the unity of the country and fought against it inside and outside the parliament with one of the goals of Bharatiya Jana Sangh being the abrogation of the article.
