Representational picture of saffron outfits
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Lucknow: Saffron activists on Friday reportedly blackened the mural of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb on the wall at one of the platforms of Ghaziabad railway station in full public view.
According to the reports, around a dozen activists, carrying sticks, brush and paints reached the station around noon and blackened the mural at platform number four of Ghaziabad railway station.
Some reports, however, claimed that the mural was that of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and not of Aurangzeb. Zafar is considered to have played a role in the first war of independence in 1857. Zafar was exiled by the British to Rangoon (now Yangkon) in Burma (Myanmar) a year later where he died.
They also raised slogans against the Muslim invaders and said they would not tolerate paintings of such people at railway stations or at any other place in the country.
‘’It’s a shame that the picture of a man, who plundered the country and demolished Hindu temples, is on the wall at a railway station....we will never allow that,’’ said Vipin Rajput, who claimed to be a worker of Hindu Raksha Dal, a saffron outfit.
Reports said that the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the GRP jawans did not make any attempt to stop the saffron activists from defacing the mural.
According to the sources, a case was registered against unidentified people in this regard and efforts were on to identify them.