Reacting strongly to desecration of former PM Indira Gandhi’s statue in Muzaffaranagar, State Congress chief Raj Babbar exhorted party workers to protest against the Government for failing to protect statues of political icons.
Earlier, a statue of Rajeev Gandhi, was damaged in Mirzapur and after Raj Babbar spearheaded a demonstration against the Government, the local police arrested half a dozen persons involved in the crime.
UP Congress spokesman Krishnakant Pandey said that Raj Babbar would go to Muzaffarnagar to demonstrate and demand arrest of the culprits responsible for the act in Khatauli area of the district. Babbar also alerted Congressmen from Saharanpur, Shamli, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Noida, Meerut etc to take to the streets and join him in the protest on Saturday. Raj Babbar will leave from New Delhi for Muzaffarnagar, where he will stage a protest against the State Government for failing to protect statues of political icons.