12-06-2006, 03:43 PM
<b>Ambedkar statue found desecrated in Allahabad</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Ambedkar statue was found damaged in the premises of Allahabad University in Uttar Pradesh early on Tuesday morning after which the students blocked roads and burnt an effigy of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, accusing him of being responsible for the<b> "insult to Dalits' pride".</b>
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In Karnataka, police lobbed teargas shells and charged with batons at Mannaekkelli village and Bidar town as Dalits torched buses and hurled stones after a string of footwear was found on the fence around a yet-to-be-unveiled statue of Ambedkar.
Police said the Dalits resorted to stone-pelting and torched at least two buses in Mannaekkelli in Humnabad taluk of Bidar district. Violence later spread to Bidar town, where scores of people resorted to stone-pelting damaging three to four buses.
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In Karnataka, police lobbed teargas shells and charged with batons at Mannaekkelli village and Bidar town as Dalits torched buses and hurled stones after a string of footwear was found on the fence around a yet-to-be-unveiled statue of Ambedkar.
Police said the Dalits resorted to stone-pelting and torched at least two buses in Mannaekkelli in Humnabad taluk of Bidar district. Violence later spread to Bidar town, where scores of people resorted to stone-pelting damaging three to four buses.
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