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SC refuses to stay Mayawati's statue installations

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Mayawati Statues
New Delhi, Jul 10: The Supreme Court of India said that it can not stay the construction of Mayawati statues in a Nodia park unless it received a case of misappropriation of fund.

“If a democratically elected government decides to do something without misappropriating public money, there is little courts can do," the apex court said.
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A supreme court advocate Ravi Kant filed a PIL seeking a stay on installation of statue of Mayawati and other Dalit leaders in Noida.

The issue of the leader using up public funds to set up statues of herself,  Dalit leader Kanchi Ram along with those of elephants signifying her party, Bahujan Samajwadi Party's (BSP) symbol has received harsh criticism from the public to the opposition parties.

The Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram earlier called her statues a 'shame' while the state opposition leader Mulayam Singh said he would bulldoze the statues if he could.

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Topics: mayawati, mulayam singh yadav, new delhi, noida, p chidambaram, statue, supreme court of india, uttar pradesh
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daya sagar 16 Aug 2009 09:42 pm
Mayawati rejects allegations saying that money has been used for constructing parks, museums, and memorials dedicated to Dalits ( installation of 60 statues of elephants — the election symbol of the BSP being erected at the cost of Rs. Rs 52.20 crore – does not fit with in her argument). As per the information provided by LDA 24 foot high statues of Mayawati and Kanshiram are installed at Pratibimb in Bhimrao Ambedkar Samajaik Parivartan Stahl (Ambedkar Memorial), Gomti Nagar. Some argue that money spent on statues and memorials could be spent on roads, buildings, schools etc to benefit common man. This argument has been disposed of by Mayawati reasoning that the money spent on the memorials and statues too goes to the common working class in the form of labour. Exemplary memorials like Ambedkar park could draw the tourists / visitors to the benefit of the locals. More so in old times also during famines or other hours of need kings used to get constructed monuments or forts to provide labour to their citizens. In fact it is not the money being spent on the memorials and statues proposed by Mayawati that is a cause of worry for the protestors but, it is the name of leaders other than Nehru / Indira / Rajiv getting known to the poor common masses that is the cause of worry. Should not a rethinking need be done for renaming even the existing programmes/ projects named after leaders owned by some political parties by some other name. This would rather put an end to the debates on the use of money from state exchequer for political benefits ( directly or indirectly) to some .
daya sagar 16 Aug 2009 09:42 pm
On ,20 August 2003 Sonia Gandhi distributed residential quarters to the safai karamcharis of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi at her New residence, on 10 Janpath, on the occasion of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s birth anniversary (although the houses had been allotted on hire-purchase basis under ‘Doctor Ambedkar Awaas Yojna ), revised and modified scheme ''Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme,'' launched on November 19,2007 (as per Pranab Mukherjee ( FM) in Feb 2009 146 lakh (BPL) households had been benefited ), Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme for Children of Working Mothers, Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (Rs 3443 Cr in 2008-09), Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (Union Government proposes to spend Rs 50,000 Cr over seven years Rs 10447.98 Cr in 2008-09 and 10713.84 Cr in 2009-10), Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (Ministry of Rural Development, Annual plan 2007-08 was Rs.6,400 crore , plan 2008-09 was Rs.7,300 crore , 2009-10 Rs.7400 Crore), Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme –( Budgetary allocation in 2008-09 is Rs. 3,443 crore and the like of ,Rajiv Gandhi Rehabilitation Package for Tsunami Affected Areas, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, Budgetary Allocation Rs.2347.19 crores). In defence it can not be argued that these are not statues and money is used for welfare. But the question is that here too ( like statues ) the name is carried on the scheme or the buildings to the political advantage of Congress only. And to add to these there are many State Government Programmes (50), Universities and Educational Institutions (96),, Roads, Buildings and Places (72), and the like in the name of Nehru family executed from STATE finances. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is accused of being busy ensuring her presence felt in her state--with lavish memorials of Dalit icons. ….. Mayawati rejects allegations saying that money has been used for constructing parks, museums, and memorials...
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