Jalandhar, June 5 -- The members of Dalit organisations, along with local residents, staged a protest against the failure of the state government to stop the incidents of defacing and vandalism of BR Ambedkar statues in the state. The protesters held a march from Jalandhar's Nangal village, where the statue was defaced on June 2, to Phillaur town, demanding immediate arrest of the accused involved in the incident. Banned outfit Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun took responsibility for the incident in a video posted on social media, claiming that the Constitution of India was "responsible for the attack on Akal Takht (the supreme temporal seat of the Sikhs) during Operation Bluestar in June 1984". This was the second incident in the past two months in the same village as earlier, the miscreants vandalised the outer protective glass sheet of the statue on March 31. Amritpal Bhonsle, a local Dalit leader, said that the government had failed to take note of such incidents, which have larger repercussions in the near future. "People of Punjab are peace lovers, and we would not tolerate acts which aim to create a rift between the communities. We have already given an ultimatum to the police to resolve the present matter at the earliest, else the organisations from across the state will be mobilised," he said. A case has been registered against Pannun and other unidentified miscreants under Section 113 (terrorist acts), 299 (hurting religious sentiments), 196 (promoting enmity) and 148 (conspiracy to intimidate the government) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Phillaur police station....