Barely A Day Later, Another Lenin Statue Brought Down In Tripura

Barely a day after a statue of Russian communist ideologue Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin was brought down with a JCB earth mover in Belonia town, Tripura, another statue has been taken down, reports Republic.

The statue was installed at the Motor Stand in the town of Sabroom in south Tripura. While the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) that ruled Tripura for 25 years claimed that the statue’s demolition was an example of “Communism Phobia”, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – victorious in the recently concluded assembly elections – said that it was the oppressed victims of the left who were behind the demolition.

BJP leader and Rajya Sabha member Subramaniam Swamy told reporters outside the Parliament that Lenin was a foreigner and a terrorist and said that parties could install statues of him outside their offices if they wanted to worship him.

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