Lenin's statue razed LIVE UPDATES: 'Lenin is a foreigner, a terrorist,' says Subramanian Swamy

When the Lenin's statue, installed at a major crossing, was being brought down, one can hear "Bharat Mata Ki..." slogans.

Image: Subramanian Swamy/ANI

Belonia (Tripura): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, allegedly, bulldozed Lenin's statue in Tripura's Belonia town. The incident has happened, reportedly, just with 48 hours of the announcement of state assembly election results in which saffron party got a majority by winning 35 seats on its own out of 59. When the Lenin's statue, installed at a major crossing, was being brought down, one can hear "Bharat Mata Ki..." slogans. However, the politics related with Lenin's statue razed LIVE UPDATES:

• Lenin is a foreigner, a terrorist, status of such a person in our country? That status can be kept inside Communist party's headquarters and offered prayers: Subramanian Swamy

#Lenin to videshi hai, ek parakar se antankwadi hai, aise vyakti ka humare desh mein statue? Woh statue Communist party ke headquarters ke andar rakh sakte hain aur pooja karen :Subramanian Swamy pic.twitter.com/DUDVFApSCT

— ANI (@ANI) March 6, 2018

• Violence in Tripura is clear indication of what are the intentions of BJP-RSS in the state: Sitaram Yechury, CPI-M

I do not support razing of it, BJP workers not involved in it: Tripura BJP-in-charge Sunil Deodhar on #Lenin statue https://t.co/JQJlKZeiOkpic.twitter.com/HLi1gLO0oL — ABP News (@abpnewstv) March 6, 2018

• BJP does not ever practice culture of violence. In places like Tripura, Left parties have chosen to be silent about 11 BJP workers who were killed. Some of those who support Left parties are trying to foist these kind of debates that a statue is removed: Nalin Kohli, BJP

It is being alleged that BJP supporters first indulged in sloganeering, then reduced the statue to the ground. The CPI-M has already alleged that around 514 CPI-M supporters were injured in attacks by rival BJP party workers at more than 200 places across Tripura since Saturday, after the declaration of the poll results. "Arsoning, attacks and loot were carried out in around 1,539 houses. Many rubber gardens and small vehicles, hundreds of small shops, were forcibly occupied, ransacked or burned at around 500 places," CPI-M state secretary Bijan Dhar said on Monday night, reported IANS. About Lenin: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (also known as Lenin) was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist and served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under Lenin's administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism.