Rakesh Sinha denies garlanding Ambedkar statue in Meerut
New Delhi (India), Aug 12 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rakesh Sinha on Sunday refuted reports of having garlanded a statue of Dr. BR Ambedkar in Meerut, a day after a group of lawyers "purified" the statue with milk and gangaajal after they claimed that Sinha was among the BJP leaders who garlanded it.
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Aug 12, 2018 22:37 IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 12 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rakesh Sinha on Sunday refuted reports of having garlanded a statue of Dr. BR Ambedkar in Meerut, a day after a group of lawyers "purified" the statue with milk and gangaajal after they claimed that Sinha was among the BJP leaders who garlanded it.
The BJP leader took to Twitter to clarify that he had not visited Meerut in the last ten years, and therefore, was not present at the time of the incident.
"In Katihar on August 4, In Patna for my mother's monthly rituals on August 5, from August 6 to 10, I was attending the Monsoon session of the Parliament, on August 11, I delivered an inaugural speech at a thinker's meet in Bhopal," he tweeted.
On Saturday, one of the lawyers present at the venue said the purification was done after Sinha garlanded the statue.
"The BJP government oppresses Dalits. They have nothing to do with Ambedkar, but still, they use his name just to promote their party and allure the Dalit community," the lawyer had told ANI.
Meerut: A group of Dalit lawyers 'purified' statue of Dr BR Ambedkar near Dist Court y'day, say "RSS' Rakesh Sinha came&garlanded the statue.BJP govt oppresses Dalits.They've nothing to do with Ambedkar but do this to promote BJP&allure Dalits. So we purified this with Gangajal." pic.twitter.com/cs8tnzZ3XE
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Rakesh Sinha, who was recently nominated to the Rajya Sabha by President Ram Nath Kovind, joined the BJP last month.
An author and columnist, Sinha was among four people nominated to the Rajya Sabha by President Kovind last month. (ANI)
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