Periyar statue vandalism to Mersal row, H Raja a serial controversy creator

This is not the first time when the BJP leader's comments on Periyar have incited communal sentiments. He referred to the backward classes' political icon as "anti-Dalit" during an RSS event

H Raja, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu, created a political storm on Wednesday when a Facebook post from his profile seemed to exhort the razing of ' "casteist" Periyar's' busts amid what was being called the 'statue wars'.

In the past couple of days, statues of Vladimir Lenin, B R Ambedkar, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee and Periyar have been vandalised in Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, following the Assembly election results in the