The local police have apprehended the person and said that there was no political relation in the matter. The man had broken the spectacles on Gandhi's statue in Thaliperambu area of the city on Thursday morning.
The incident came close on the heels of the razing of the statue of Lenin in Tripura and the desecration of a bust of Periyar in Tamil Nadu's Vellore.
After Lenin in West Bengal, Periyar in Tamil Nadu and Syama Prasad Mukherjee in West Bengal, a new incident of statue vandalism has now been reported from UP's Mawana.
In wake of recent incidents of violence, the Ministry of Home Affairs has also asked the states to take all necessary measures to prevent such incidents.
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