Tirunelveli: Commemorating the 95th death anniversary of Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin, a 12-foot-tall statue was unveiled by CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury in Tirunelveli on Tuesday.
In March last year, days after the Left was defeated in the Assembly polls by the BJP and its ally IPFT, two Lenin statues were pulled down in Tripura.
Artist G Chandrasekaran, from Chennai designed the fibreglass statue which costs around Rs 4 lakh mobilised by party workers. According to a party spokes person, they were deeply disturbed after the incidents in Tripura and Communist party cannot be destroyed by destroying statues.