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Mahatma's statue vandalized in Kendrapara
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|September 11, 2025
Unidentified miscreants vandalized the statue of Mahatma Gandhi installed at a government-run upper primary school in Nilikana village under Derabish police station here on Tuesday night.
The concrete life-size statue installed at the school was found uprooted and vandalized from the pedestal.
This story is from the September 11, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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