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The Baghayatin sculpture on the side of the road in front of the main gate of Kaya College was vandalized. Photo: collected
The evildoers have vandalized the sculpture of the anti-British revolutionary Baghayatin (Jatindranath Mukherjee) amid criticism and protests over the vandalism of the sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia. The incident took place sometime on Thursday night. Nizamul Haque, president of the university, Harun Aur Rashid, director, Khalilur Rahman, night watchman and Anisur Rahman, president of the Kaya Union Juba League have been brought to the police station for questioning.
The officer in charge of the Kumarkhali (OC) police, Mojibur Rahman, confirmed the information. Earlier, Kumarkhali Upazila Nirbahi (UN) officer Rajibul Islam Khan visited the site together with him. The Kushtia Police Superintendent, SM Tanvir Arafat, visited the scene at around 1.30 pm.
The Baghayatin sculpture is placed on the side of the road in front of the main gate of Kaya College in the Kaya village of Kushtia Kumarkhali upazila. The UN Rajibul Islam Khan said there were marks of wounds on the sculpture’s right cheek and nose. The matter is being seriously investigated.
Kushtia Police Superintendent SM Tanvir Arafat said preparations were under way to file a case under the Special Powers Act at the Kumarkhali Police Station. Senior police officers, including the PBI district detective police, are present at the scene.
Harun Aur Rashid, principal of Kaya College, said he could not say who had destroyed the sculpture as the institution was closed during the coronavirus infection. In the morning, the locals informed him about the matter via mobile phone. He said this before being taken to the police station for questioning.
Khalilur Rahman, the university’s night watchman, said he heard a loud noise around 1 a.m. yesterday. Then he left the university and saw three people riding two motorcycles on both sides of the road.
Born on December 6, 189 in Kayagram (now Kushtia) from the then Bengal presidency of British India, this revolutionary’s real name was Jatindranath Mukherjee. He played a very important role in the anti-British armed movement in India. At that time Bagha Jatin was the leader of Jugantar Dal, the main revolutionary organization in Bengal. Shortly before World War I, he met the German crown prince in person in Calcutta and received weapons and ammunition training from Germany. The ‘German plot’ known as the armed coup conspiracy against the British is his creation.
At one stage in the armed struggle, he was seriously wounded in an encounter at Baleshwar in Orissa and died in Balasore hospital at the age of 35. In 2016, Kaya College was named after her. This sculpture of his was erected in front of the school in the same year.
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