Statue Politics

Gotabaya Rajapaksa is not the first leader to have fled their country in the face of popular unrest. Here is a brief list mentioning some of them

Statues and wall graphiti depicting its saints (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, and sometimes, even Stalin) are ubiquitous and red flags and the hammer and sickle sprout everywhere like weeds

He said the vandalism of Periyar's statue in Vellore was also an act of extremism

The bust of Mookerjee was damaged by activists of Left-leaning outfit 'Radical' in south Kolkata, officials said