151 statues of Ambedkar were vandalised in U.P. under the BJP: Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday (September 20, 2026) alleged that over 151 statues of B.R. Ambedkar had been vandalised across 72 districts of Uttar Pradesh under the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) nine-and-a-half-year rule in the State. Releasing a ‘Samajwadi audit report’, Mr. Yadav alleged the incidents were part of a wider pattern in humiliating marginalised social groups and Ambedkarites.