Tagore Sculpture Controversy was an incident in the campus area of Dhaka University, Bangladesh.

On 14 February 2023, a temporary sculpture of Rabindranath Tagore was installed there by some student to make people aware of various issues in the country.

But the university authority silently removed it and later showed the reason of installing without taking prior permission.

Later, the broken pieces of the sculpture were found in a shed near the campus, drawing criticism from the authority.

[9] The students assembled the broken parts of the sculpture and installed it at its original location on February 18 and hung two banners on either side of it.

[10] However, although the pieces of the sculpture were put back together, its head was tilted and its state of disrepair was visible.

[11] AKM Golam Rabbani, the proctor of the university, felt that permission should have been taken from the authority before installing the sculpture.

[1] Terming the installation of another sculpture next to Raju's as "degenerate culture", he said the students had insulted Rabindranath Tagore by defacing it.

[14] A. S. M. Abdur Rab, the president of National Socialist Party (JSD), criticized the authority in a party statement saying that throwing the broken head of Rabindranath Tagore's sculpture in the garbage heap at Suhrawardy Udyan was not a sign of respect for the poet.

If the sculpture of Rabindranath is removed from the university of Dhaka, then I am bound to say - Bangladesh has returned to the Pakistani era.

[17] According to Ajoy Dasgupta, Rabindranath is being used as a tool by the Leftist organizations in the name of free thought to provide support to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.