Bharat Singh, BJP MP from Ballia has alleged that Christian missionaries were behind the vandalisation of the statues of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar across the state. The MP said, “It is at the behest of the Christian missionaries that the statues of Babasaheb Ambedkar are being damaged and vandalized. The missionaries are also financing the people who are indulging in damaging and vandalizing the statues of Babasaheb.”
Mounting an attack on the Christian missionaries, Singh said, “The Christian missionaries are unable to accept the surge of the BJP under the leadership of BJP chief Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” He alleged that the missionaries are also involved in large-scale religious conversion of Hindus through financial support to them.
There have been over half-a-dozen incidents of vandalising of the statues of Ambedkar in various parts of Uttar Pradesh over the last one month. Only a day ago the state police had sounded an alert across Uttar Pradesh for possible attempts to damage statues of the Dalit stalwart ahead of his birth anniversary on April 14.
Ambedkar statues have recently been vandalised in Meerut, Budayun, Saharanpur, Firozabad, and Bulandshahr in March, triggering angry protests from the opposition Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP).