Dispute erupts in aligarh over Ambedkar's statue...

In aligarh, miscreants created a ruckus over placing Bhimrao Ambedkar's statue on village society's land. During this, after a scuffle, the miscreants also pelted stones at the police. In which two policemen were seriously injured, seeing the situation becoming critical, police force from nearby police stations was called on the spot. At the same time, two scooters were set on fire by the miscreants, challenging the police. After a lot of hard work by the police, the statue has been removed from the disputed site while chasing away the miscreants. So far, the battle for supremacy between two Pradhans has come to the fore in the whole matter. Due to which both the former and the current Pradhan have been taken into custody by the police.

Gram panchayat talked to SSP Aligarh

Actually the whole matter is of village Bhimpur of Rorawar police station area of aligarh, where boundary was being erected by Baghel community to build a temple on the land of village society. On the other hand, the statue of baba Saheb Ambedkar was erected overnight by the Dalit community on the land of village society. Regarding which a delegation from Dalit community reached to meet district Magistrate aligarh and SSP Aligarh. Where SSP aligarh told the Dalit community not to place the statue and to resolve the matter through talks.

Along with this, the district Magistrate had also cited Dalit community and Baghel community to stay away from the land of village society, but when an attempt was made to place the statue at the disputed site overnight, the police asked to remove it, on which the wall erected by Baghel community was removed but the Dalit community did not remove the statue from the spot and started quarreling with the police. So far two policemen have been injured in the whole matter, while both the Pradhans have been taken into custody by the police. To maintain peace and order on the spot, the police has converted the disputed site into a cantonment.

What does SSP aligarh say?

Giving information on the whole matter, SSP sanjeev Suman said that a matter was going on in village Bhimpur of police station Rorawar since january 26, 2025, the people of the village installed a statue of Ambedkar ji overnight on the land of the Gram Sabha, before that that work was stopped by the police station. After that in two-three days, those people installed a statue at night.

Since then the administration and police were continuously talking, since then the force has been present on the spot. Talks were held at different levels. On january 28, 2025, a delegation of theirs went to talk to the DM and SSP, in which under the rules, no construction can be done on the land of any Gram Sabha, and the statue cannot be installed either.

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