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December 08, 2016

India: Jaipur Art Summit being held from December 7-11, 2016 comes under attack from Right-wing group Rashtriya Hindu Ekta Manch who vandalise & take away artwork

India Today

Right-wing group Rashtriya Hindu Ekta Manch vandalised Jaipur Art Summit

Hemlata Sharma, president of an outfit called Lal Sena, was seen in a video trying to incite vandalism at the event.
Praveen Shekhar  | Posted by Ankit Misra
New Delhi, December 8, 2016 | UPDATED 23:04 IST
Picture for representational purpose only.

Highlights

  • 1 Bajrang Dal, VHP activists ransacked Garden Gallery of Arts and Textiles in Surat.
  • 2 Rashtriya Hindu Ekta Manch had earlier taken offence to Raju Hirani’s movie PK.
  • 3 Sri Ram Sene members destroyed several MF Husain paintings in a Delhi exhibition in August 2008.
Some miscreants barged into the venue of the ongoing Jaipur Art Summit on December 8, vandalised paintings and thrashed one of the painters. They also took away with them a painting displayed at the high-profile art fair. This act was to protest against the display of a semi-nude painting at the summit.
The culprits have been identified. A police investigation is on.
Someone by the name Hemlata Sharma, president of an outfit called Lal Sena, can be seen in a video gesturing, shouting and trying to justify her vandalism with the chant “does freedom of expression allow you to call this art�?