Bihar CM urged for installation of statue of Chandapuri

A delegation of backward classes today met Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and urged him to install a statue of social worker and freedom fighter R L Chandapuri in the state capital.

The delegation also requested the CM to provide land and building to a social studies research organisation run in the name of Chandapuri, a release from All India Backward Classes Federation said here.

The visiting members presented several books written by Chandapuri to the CM.

Chandapuri was a social worker who had worked closely with Mahatama Gandhi, Subhas Chandra Bose and B R Ambedkar.

The Federation President Indra Kumar Chandapuri said in the release that the CM assured them to look into the request.