Kin want Azad's bust back in place of Arjun Singh's statue

Amid the ongoing row over the installation of Congress veteran late Arjun Singh' statue at a trisection here, where the bust of freedom fighter Chandra Shekhar Azad earlier existed, the latter's descendants have sought re-installation of the revolutionary's bust at the same spot.

Azad's bust had been removed from the place on Link Road No. 1 in New Market locality about three years ago and was relocated at a spot along a nearby road during the erstwhile BJP government in Madhya Pradesh.

The BJP-ruled Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) has installed a life-sized statue of Singh, a former chief minister and Gandhi family loyalist, who died in 2011. The statue is yet to be unveiled.

Talking to reporters here, Lucknow-based Amit Azad, who claims to be a member of Chandra Shekhar Azad's family, said, "This is an insult to the great freedom struggle heroes, who laid their lives for the country. Azad ji's bust was removed three years back and relocated from its pedestal with objectives to improve traffic condition and for widening a road."