What are the ongoing riots in Mumbai about?

Question

Heard that some statue of a Hindu god was burnt ib Bombay but where exactly and who did it?

Answer 1

4 members of a Dalit (lower caste) family were killed by upper caste members in Nasik, Maharshtra. Then 2 days ago the statue of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, a revered leader of the dalits and one of the architects of the Indian constitution was desecrated at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh Pradesh in North India. This has led to riots in Bombay by members of the Dalit community where they went berserk burning bogies of 2 trains , pelting rocks on and burning buses and basically creating a law and order problem. I

Answer 2

Members of India's hardline Hindu Shiv Sena party have rioted in Mumbai after a statue of their leader's former wife was vandalised.

The party members pelted buses with stones, forced shops to close and blocked sections of a major highway. Police used teargas to disperse crowds.

Arup Patnaik, the city's police commissioner said the entire city had been put on alert, and he was trying to regain control.

Mr Patnaik said: "We are in dialogue with Shiv Sena leaders and hope to bring the situation under control soon."

Two tourist buses were burned by protesters, who also called for a strike in the neighbourhoods of Dadar, Worli and Navi Mumbai.

Workers at Mumbai's domestic airport also went on strike, and protests were reported in the cities of Aurangabad, Nashik and Nagpur in the western Maharashtra state.

It is not known who defaced the statue of Minatai, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's former wife.

Answer 3

This is the first I have heard of it and if your first answerer is right, then these people lead a sadder life than I and I hadn't thought that possible.
There has to be some deeper rooted cause than someone defacing a statue doesn't there?

Answer 4

Poverty. But the anger is directed elsewhere - religion

Answer 5

Something to do with someone not sharing their last Rolo.