New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday criticsed BSP supremo Mayawati for her comments on statues and parks, saying all this is a political stunt by the former state chief minister. "Statues will not be removed. But all I want to ask that how have the dalits got benefited by these statues and parks? Instead of statues there should be schools, hospitals for women and children on...
12:26 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Lucknow: Within a month of the face-off in the electoral battle field, the two rivals in Uttar Pradesh prepare for another confrontation. On Dr Ambedkar's 121st birth anniversay, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati dared the newly formed Samajwadi Party-government not to touch parks and statues which came up during the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) regime. Mayawati said, "The ruling SP should take a lesson from the BSP government which...
09:59 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati, who had drawn flak from the Supreme Court for wasting taxpayers' money by building parks and installing her statues, on Saturday warned the ruling SP in Uttar Pradesh that any move to make changes in the memorials erected during her regime could create law and order problem. "The ruling SP should take a lesson from the BSP government which did not make any dent in the...
06:06 PM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday started uncovering Chief Minister Mayawati's statues in Lucknow. The statues were covered on January 7 upon the Election Commission's orders, after several opposition parties raised a hue and cry about her statues being in the open in poll season. The parties alleged that the BSP would have an unfair advantage in the elections because of them. In Lucknow, nine statues of Mayawati...
10:01 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's statues and those of her party's poll symbol, the elephant, will be back in public view from Sunday. The Election Commission has given the Uttar Pradesh administration the go-ahead to uncover the statues. The statues were draped on January 7 after opposition parties alleged the BSP would have an unfair advantage in the elections because of them. In Lucknow, nine statues of Mayawati...
06:12 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Hyderabad: A day-long shutdown began in Andhra Pradesh on Monday on a call given by Dalit groups to protest the recent desecration of statues of Dr B R Ambedkar. Schools, colleges, shops and business establishments remained closed in many districts while protestors blocked roads to stop buses of state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC). Student organistaions, especially Osmania University student Joint Action Committee has also called for a...
09:35 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Guntur: Close on the heels of desecration of the statues of Dalit icon Babasaheb Ambedkar, figures of two Congress leaders were found on Saturday to be defiled in Tenali town in the district, police said. Statues of Congress leaders NG Ranga and Vangaveeti Ranga were found damaged, they said. In a bid to prevent any untoward incident, police reinstalled the image of Vangaveeti Ranga even as people gathered near the...
09:40 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Allahabad: A Public Interest Litigation was on Tuesday filed in the Allahabad High Court seeking directions for covering of statues of former Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi across Uttar Pradesh till assembly elections were over in the state. The PIL, filed by Allahabad-based organisation "Adivasi Samajotthan Evam Kalyan Samiti" through its president RK Maurya, comes barely a fortnight after the Election Commission had ordered covering of...
09:26 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Lucknow: Attacking Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, BJP on Monday said that if voted to power, it will install statues of saints like Kabir, Ravidas and other great personalities, irrespective of their caste, in the memorials and parks set up by the BSP supremo. "There is no place for self-glorification in BJP's dream Uttar Pradesh. If BJP comes to power, statues of Kabir, Sant Ravidas, martyr Uda Devi, Jhalkari Bai...
08:31 AM, Jan 17, 2012
The Congress also criticised Election Commission's decision to cover Mayawati's statues and her party symbol, elephant. ...
09:28 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Lucknow/New Delhi: Bringing the Election Commission in the line of fire, Mayawati on Sunday accused it of buckling under Congress pressure and dared it to order the draping of the party's 'hand' symbol like it has done for her statues and the BSP symbol 'elephant' in Uttar Pradesh. The BSP chief said that following its constitutional responsibility with honesty, the EC should have issued directives to get Congress' poll symbol...
07:33 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Lucknow: The BSP on Thursday claimed that the Election Commission decision of covering statues of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and party symbol elephant is one-sided and unjustified and was a violation of Article 14 of the Constitution. BSP National General Secretary Satish Chandra Mishra said that due to the decision taken on the memoranda of SP, Congress and BJP, Dalits and backwards were feeling cheated. "The decision is violation...
03:00 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Bhopal: Terming as "childish" the Election Commission (EC) directive of covering up the statues of UP Chief Minister Mayawati and elephant, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) symbol, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday said the constitutional body should refrain from such decisions. "The EC's decision to cover up Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's statues and the elephant models is childish and impractical," Modi, chairman of the Empowered...
07:15 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: A PIL was moved in Allahabad High Court on Monday challenging Election Commission decision to cover all the elephant statues in Uttar Pradesh. The petitioner said that elephant is a symbol of Hinduism. The Election Commission recently ordered that all statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and her party symbol, the elephant, installed at several places in Uttar Pradesh be covered until the completion of Assembly poll process. Chief...
04:42 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Some voters in Uttar Pradesh have questioned the Election Commission's move, saying it is wasteful expenditure. ...
03:35 PM, Jan 09, 2012
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