
2022 Republic Day: Judge in Ambedkar portrait controversy pleads innocence
The Hindu
Principal District and Sessions Judge Mallikarjuna Gouda dismissed the allegation that he had got portrait of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar removed
In response to the widespread condemnation of the removal of a portrait of Dr B.R. Ambedkar from the dais during the Republic Day celebrations in the premises of the district court in Raichur on January 26, Principal District and Sessions Judge Mallikarjuna Gouda dismissed the allegation that he had told his subordinates to remove the portrait.
In a note released on January 27, Mr. Gouda termed the allegations as ‘propaganda’ against him with the suppression of facts and appealed to people not to believe in it.

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