Jan Sangh Founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s Name Inked in Kolkata

Six people were detained by the police earlier in March for vandalising Shyama Prasad Mukerjee’s bust.

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s name features prominently on the ‘Hall of Fame’ board along with other alumni of the Presidency college.

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Students of Presidency college in Kolkata allegedly inked Bharatiya Jan Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee's name in the ‘Hall of Fame’ board in the college on Sunday, 18 March.

Mukherjee’s name features prominently on the ‘Hall of Fame’ board along with other alumni of the college, including Swami Vivekananda, Dipesh Chakroborty, Air Marshall Subroto Mukherjee, Sisir Kumar Mitra, Srikumar Banerjee.

Earlier in March, members of a left-wing student organisation allegedly vandalised a bust of Mukherjee and blackened its face in the Keoratola crematorium. Six people were detained by the police in connection with the incident.

Hours after the assembly election results of Tripura were announced on 3 March, a statue of the communist icon Vladimir Lenin was bulldozed by a group of right wing supporters in the state’s Belonia town, triggering a series of attacks on statues of political leaders.

Following the vandalism on Lenin’s statue, a Dravidian leader Periyar’s statue was vandalised in Tamil Nadu as well. Statues of BR Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi were also not spared.