New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM on Wednesday claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “goons” attacked and vandalized the statue of communist icon Vladimir Lenin in Murshidabad district, where the saffron party’s Gauri Shankar Ghosh had won the assembly elections by over 30,000 votes.The party said it filed a police complaint, leading to five arrests, and vowed to reconstruct the statue on May 8.“On the night of May 5, in Jiaganj area of ​​Murshidabad district, BJP goons attacked and vandalized a statue of Lenin. Our comrades responded immediately and lodged a police complaint. A demonstration was held, following which five were arrested. This morning, our comrades again visited the site. The statue will be rebuilt on May 8,” the party posted on Twitter.Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary who led the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and founded the Soviet Union, becoming one of the most influential communist leaders. He had tremendous influence in West Bengal politics under the CPM rule, which was overthrown by TMC’s Mamata Banerjee in 2011 after three decades.The mega turnaround was repeated on May 4 when the BJP, similarly, demolished the ruling Trinamool by winning 207 seats in the 294-seat Bengal Assembly with a vote share of 45.8 per cent.Since the decision, violence has been witnessed across the state, with at least four people killed, dozens injured and party offices vandalized as rival cadres of the Trinamool Congress and BJP clashed in several districts overnight.There is news of two deaths in Kolkata within 24 hours. In Beleghata, 45-year-old Trinamool poll agent Biswajit Patnaik was found lying in a pool of blood at his doorstep after walking out after a phone call. Police suspect that he was chased, tried to run across the rooftops and fell, although his family alleges that he was dragged out and beaten.In 2018, two Lenin statues were pulled down in South Tripura just days after the Left’s defeat in the assembly elections by the BJP and its ally IPFT, which together commanded a two-thirds majority in the House in the state where the CPI(M) had been in power for 25 years.A five-foot-tall fiber glass statue of Lenin was toppled in Belonia, while a smaller statue in Sabroom was vandalized two days earlier.