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RMC said the statues were illegally erected. Rajkot: Dalit community members were seething after two statues of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar were removed by the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) on Friday.The Dalits blocked several roads, vandalized a private car and a GSRTC bus in the morning after statues were removed from Ambedkar Chowk and Rajnagar Chowk late on Thursday. But the issue has been settled and we have returned statues to them with the condition that they won’t place them without permission. Assistant commissioner of police, Rajkot west, Harshad Mehta said, “They did not vandalize public property and therefore we did not file any FIR. RMC was forced to suspend BRTS service for nearly three hours in the morning..