Mayawati Garland

Two BSP leaders were garlanded with shoes, faces blackened and paraded outside the party office In Rajasthan on Tuesday by some of the BSP workers who alleged corruption in ticket allocation.

He was told he could not garland the iconic statue of Dr B R Amebkar in Mayawati's constituency of Ambedkar Nagar. So Rahul Gandhi showered petals on the leader's statue in Parliament in Delhi, and then headed to battle the UP Chief Minister on her home turf.

The turf war for dalit votes escalates as Mayawati denies Rahul Gandhi permission to garland an Ambedkar statue in UP.

Attacking UP Chief Minister Mayawati on the "cash garland" controversy, the Samajwadi Party on Monday questioned the "reluctance" of the Congress-led government at the Centre to get the matter investigated and bring the BSP supremo to book.

Mayawati's garland episode seems to have taught a few lessons to her fellow Haryana counterpart. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh refused to sit on a silver chair offered to him by party workers at a rally in Samalkha on Sunday.

A group of BSP workers allegedly stoned the office of a Malayalam daily on Friday protesting a cartoon carried by it on the currency note garland controversy involving Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and party supremo Mayawati.

In Delhi, leaders of different parties may be using her multi-lakh garland to attack her, but in the Uttar Pradesh heartland, the public pomp and glory of Maywati's evokes a different reaction. The one she wants.

The latest in Mala-Gate: a BSP spokesman has been fired for confirming that Monday's garland was made of 1000-rupee notes.

Caught in the eye of a growing storm over her gigantic money garland, Mayawati has called a meeting on Wednesday of all her party MPs, MLAs and ministers.

As speculation continues over how much Mayawati's garland cost and who footed the bill, the Congress claims it's worth a whopping 22.5 crore rupees.

In Parliament, critics angrily demanded 'who paid for it?' The Income Tax department says it intends to find out. As for Mayawati, well, she's keeping it.

The Income Tax Department has begun a probe into the garland made of money presented to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday.

The Congress said the Centre should look into the "organised loot" in Uttar Pradesh.

Her critics have asked, in Parliament, who paid for it? An angry public wants to know why flaunt it? As for Mayawati, well, she's keeping it. Her party workers say the garland made of thousand rupee notes is "with the Chief Minister of UP, where it belongs".

The furore over Mayawati's mala reached the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The Samajwadi Party has demanded a CBI inquiry into the gigantic garland made of thousands of thousand-rupee notes that was bestowed upon the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister at a huge rally in Lucknow yesterday.

Two BSP leaders were garlanded with shoes, faces blackened and paraded outside the party office In Rajasthan on Tuesday by some of the BSP workers who alleged corruption in ticket allocation.

He was told he could not garland the iconic statue of Dr B R Amebkar in Mayawati's constituency of Ambedkar Nagar. So Rahul Gandhi showered petals on the leader's statue in Parliament in Delhi, and then headed to battle the UP Chief Minister on her home turf.

The turf war for dalit votes escalates as Mayawati denies Rahul Gandhi permission to garland an Ambedkar statue in UP.

Attacking UP Chief Minister Mayawati on the "cash garland" controversy, the Samajwadi Party on Monday questioned the "reluctance" of the Congress-led government at the Centre to get the matter investigated and bring the BSP supremo to book.

Mayawati's garland episode seems to have taught a few lessons to her fellow Haryana counterpart. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh refused to sit on a silver chair offered to him by party workers at a rally in Samalkha on Sunday.

A group of BSP workers allegedly stoned the office of a Malayalam daily on Friday protesting a cartoon carried by it on the currency note garland controversy involving Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and party supremo Mayawati.

In Delhi, leaders of different parties may be using her multi-lakh garland to attack her, but in the Uttar Pradesh heartland, the public pomp and glory of Maywati's evokes a different reaction. The one she wants.

The latest in Mala-Gate: a BSP spokesman has been fired for confirming that Monday's garland was made of 1000-rupee notes.

Caught in the eye of a growing storm over her gigantic money garland, Mayawati has called a meeting on Wednesday of all her party MPs, MLAs and ministers.

As speculation continues over how much Mayawati's garland cost and who footed the bill, the Congress claims it's worth a whopping 22.5 crore rupees.

In Parliament, critics angrily demanded 'who paid for it?' The Income Tax department says it intends to find out. As for Mayawati, well, she's keeping it.

The Income Tax Department has begun a probe into the garland made of money presented to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday.

The Congress said the Centre should look into the "organised loot" in Uttar Pradesh.

Her critics have asked, in Parliament, who paid for it? An angry public wants to know why flaunt it? As for Mayawati, well, she's keeping it. Her party workers say the garland made of thousand rupee notes is "with the Chief Minister of UP, where it belongs".

The furore over Mayawati's mala reached the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The Samajwadi Party has demanded a CBI inquiry into the gigantic garland made of thousands of thousand-rupee notes that was bestowed upon the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister at a huge rally in Lucknow yesterday.