Tripura Violence
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Amravati violence: Four-day curfew, internet shut down as fresh violence erupts in Maharashtra city
•In Amravati, over 8,000 people had gathered outside the district collector's office on Friday to submit a memorandum demanding that atrocities against the minority community in Tripura be stopped.
Tripura police books four SC lawyers under UAPA for abetting communal disharmony
•Superintendent of Police of West Tripura district Manik Das said the lawyers have been served notices asking them to appear before police by 10 November for questioning
Rahul slams Centre over Tripura violence, says govt pretending to be 'deaf and blind'
Fp Staff •He also alleged that Muslims were being brutalised and those indulging in violence in the name of Hinduism are not Hindus but hypocrites
Tripura violence: Four injured, 15 bikes and car gutted in CPM-BJP clash ahead of panchayat polls; residents desert village
•West Chandrapur village near the India-Bangladesh border in North Tripura district on Monday turned into a deserted rural hamlet as all the villagers shifted to elsewhere after a clash broke out between BJP and CPM supporters, police said
Vladimir Lenin statues pulled down in Tripura: History is unforgiving, especially to those who wish to control it
Amalendu Misra •When BJP won a convincing victory over the Communists who controlled Tripura, the celebrations led to immediate bulldozing of two statues of Vladimir Lenin.
'Stop the drama': Mayawati slams BJP over statue vandalism, says its leaders merely issuing statements
•Criticising the vandalism of statues in some parts of the country, the Bahujan Samaj Party asked the BJP to stop the "drama" of issuing statements, and take steps instead to end the violence.
BR Ambedkar, Periyar, Lenin idols razed: As statue politics peaks in nation, Amit Shah backs H Raja but distances BJP from vandalism
Fp Staff •Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday strongly condemned the vandalism of statues of Lenin, Periyar and BR Ambedkar and warned of stern action against those found guilty.
Statue vandalism updates: After BR Ambedkar, Periyar statues defiled, demand rises to arrest vandals under NSA act
Fp Staff •Two statues of communist icon Vladimir Lenin were brought down in South Tripura, the police said, as the CPM and its arch-rival in Bengal, the Trinamool Congress, blamed the BJP for the incidents.
WATCH: Statue war continues; BR Ambedkar's statue damaged in UP's Meerut, officials replace it with new one
Fppolitics •After statues of Lenin, Periyar, Shyama Prasad Mookherjee were vandalised in separate incidents across India, a staute of Dalit icon Bababsaheb Ambedkar has been vandalised by unknown miscreants, say TV reports.
Fall of Lenin in Tripura transcends hooliganism and becomes an act of catharsis against communist violence
Sreemoy Talukdar •The bulldozing of Lenin’s statue transcends goonish behaviour and becomes an expression of popular anger.