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Political blame game intensifies following Vidyasagar statue desecration

Both TMC and BJP put forward a series of pictures and video footages to pin the blame on one another

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee shows the broken bust of Vidyasagar to mediapersons outside Vidyasagar College in Kolkata on Tuesday night  | Photo: PTI
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Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee shows the broken bust of Vidyasagar to mediapersons outside Vidyasagar College in Kolkata on Tuesday night | Photo: PTI

Avishek RakshitArchis Mohan Kolkata
A day after the desecration of the statue of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar during a roadshow of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Amit Shah in Kolkata, political blame game intensified between the BJP and the opposition on Wednesday.

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) as well as the Congress blamed the BJP, which in turn alleged that Trinamool workers broke the statue of the iconic reformer and a key figure in Indian renaissance. 

The BJP is hopeful that Tuesday’s events in Kolkata would influence voter behaviour, if not in West Bengal, at least in rest of the seats going to the polls in the last phase