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About the demolition in Belonia, he said, “The statue had been installed with the approval of the municipality, so pulling it down is a crime.” ‘Chalo Paltai’.”In a memorandum to PM Modi on Tuesday, the CPM politburo asked for his immediate intervention to end the violence in Tripura. Madhav’s tweet, which was later deleted, referred to the slogan for change which BJP had given during the campaign: “People taking down Lenin’s statue… not in Russia; it is in Tripura. The governor had tweeted that “anything done by a democratically elected government can be undone by a new government”. AGARTALA: Two statues of Lenin have been pulled down in the last 24 hours by mobs in Tripura, where the Left Front suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of BJP and its ally, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura IPFT ), in the assembly elections.On Tuesday, a statue of the Communist icon was razed to the ground at Sabroom, in the southernmost tip of the state bordering Bangladesh, while on Monday a mob demolished a statue of Lenin using an excavator at Belonia..