Lenin statue toppled in Tripura: Shouldn't BJP focus on governance instead of ideological warfare?

The dismantling of a statue of the Russian Communist Vladimir Lenin in Tripura, where a BJP alliance has ended 25 years of Left rule, divided India's political class on Tuesday.

Predictably, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was furious. Its Politburo said the destruction of the statue was "symbolic of the rabid anti-Communist, anti-democratic fascistic character" of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the parent organisation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP.