New Delhi, December 26: Sikh protesters on Wednesday demanded the renaming of Rajiv Chowk, previously known as Connaught Place, after revolutionary leader Shaheed Bhagat Singh, and defaced a “Rajiv Chowk” signboard.
Raising slogans against former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the protesters garlanded the signboard with shoes and slippers and splashed black paint on the signboard.
The incident comes a day after a statute of the late Prime Minister was vandalised in Ludhiana in Punjab by Akali Dal leaders.
Holding Rajiv Gandhi responsible for the 1984 riots, survivors of the anti-Sikh riots demanded that the area be renamed as Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chowk. — IANS
