HUBBALLI: Members of more than a few dalit organisations, activists and progressive thinkers cleaned and purified the statue of Dr B R Ambedkar with milk at the head postoffice, Hubballi, on Monday.
Dalit organisations and others expressed their ire against some BJP leaders together with MP Pralhad Joshi who had garlanded the statue of Dr Ambedkar on Ambedkar Jayanti dressed in slippers.
An afternoon after this incident, some dalit organisation members sought an apology from BJP leaders for the incident. When there used to be no response, dalit organisations decided to cleanse the statue with milk.
A lot of people accumulated and cleaned all of the premises by way of sprinkling water from a water tank. Later, they cleansed the statue by way of pouring milk on it.
Speaking to TOI, Gurunath Ullikasi, state president, Samata Sena, Hubballi, mentioned BJP leaders themselves had admitted that they have got committed a mistake by way of garlanding the statue dressed in slippers. As they did not reply to our demand to apologise for their act, we introduced this cleansing power today.
“Our main aim of purifying the statue of Dr Ambedkar used to be not to harm or insult someone, but to ship a strong message that we should respect personalities like Dr Ambedkar,” he mentioned.
“We used 101 litres of milk to scrub the statue and in addition roped in a tanker of water to scrub all of the premises of the statue,” Ullikasi added. When contacted BJP spokesperson Hanumanthappa Doddamani, denied the costs levelled by way of dalit organisations.
Dalit organisations and others expressed their ire against some BJP leaders together with MP Pralhad Joshi who had garlanded the statue of Dr Ambedkar on Ambedkar Jayanti dressed in slippers.
An afternoon after this incident, some dalit organisation members sought an apology from BJP leaders for the incident. When there used to be no response, dalit organisations decided to cleanse the statue with milk.
A lot of people accumulated and cleaned all of the premises by way of sprinkling water from a water tank. Later, they cleansed the statue by way of pouring milk on it.
Speaking to TOI, Gurunath Ullikasi, state president, Samata Sena, Hubballi, mentioned BJP leaders themselves had admitted that they have got committed a mistake by way of garlanding the statue dressed in slippers. As they did not reply to our demand to apologise for their act, we introduced this cleansing power today.
“Our main aim of purifying the statue of Dr Ambedkar used to be not to harm or insult someone, but to ship a strong message that we should respect personalities like Dr Ambedkar,” he mentioned.
“We used 101 litres of milk to scrub the statue and in addition roped in a tanker of water to scrub all of the premises of the statue,” Ullikasi added. When contacted BJP spokesperson Hanumanthappa Doddamani, denied the costs levelled by way of dalit organisations.
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