Mayawati Statue

A statue of an elephant installed at the Ambedkar Memorial Park here was stolen, prompting Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati to call the theft "shameful and worrying".

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, campaigning today for elections in the state next year, promised a big change from her last stint in power - no statues, memorials or parks.

Uttar Pradesh politician Mayawati on Tuesday justified her life-size statues built in Uttar Pradesh with crores in public money when she was Chief Minister, telling the Supreme Court they represent the "will of the people".

A day after the Supreme Court suggested that former UP Chief Minister Mayawati return the crores she had spent on statues installed in parks across Lucknow and Noida, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief urged that the observation of the top court shouldn't be "distorted".

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav Friday said BSP's lawyers will present their side before the Supreme Court, which expressed a tentative view that party chief Mayawati has to deposit the public money used for erecting statues to the state exchequer.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has to reimburse the public money spent on installing hundreds of elephant statues in parks in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow and Noida, the Supreme Court said today.The elephant is the symbol of the Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP.

Memorials with giant statues of elephants and BSP icons, built during Mayawati's rule in Uttar Pradesh, were under scrutiny today as the Enforcement Directorate raided half a dozen places in state capital Lucknow. The raids come weeks after the CBI launched an inquiry into the role of Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati's alliance partner in UP for the nation...

On a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the 'Statue of Unity', the world's tallest statue dedicated to freedom icon Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has asked the BJP and its ideological mentor RSS to apologise for criticising her government for getting statues of Dalit icons installed in parks in Uttar Pradesh.

Unlike the last Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, statues of elephants, the BSP's poll symbol doting various parks and memorials in Lucknow and in Noida, will not be under wraps this time.

No political party would be allowed to use public funds and government machinery to publicise its political symbol, the Election Commission has said, amid a legal tussle over elephant statues in Uttar Pradesh installed during the Bahujan Samaj Party's rule.

Delhi High Court on Friday remanded back to the Election Commission a plea seeking cancellation of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) symbol 'Elephant', for alleged misuse of public funds by the erstwhile Mayawati government in installing statues of the pachyderm across the state.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati today strongly condemned the alleged vandalisation of party founder Kanshi Ram's statue in Haryana and demanded action against the guilty.

Mayawati, immortalized in dozens of statues in sprawling memorials in Lucknow and near Delhi, promised today: "No more memorials if I come to power."

When Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi visited Mumbai this week, he articulated his idea of honouring the Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhai Patel. Mr Modi told a gathering at the Indian Merchant's Chamber, "I want a huge statue of Sardar Patel to be built and I will name it the Statue of Unity.

The Lucknow police on Tuesday arrested two more persons in connection with the July 26 vandalism of former UP chief minister Mayawati's statue. The two arrested youth were identified as Meerut resident Pawan Sharma and Shagun Tyagi of Bijnor.

A statue of an elephant installed at the Ambedkar Memorial Park here was stolen, prompting Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati to call the theft "shameful and worrying".

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, campaigning today for elections in the state next year, promised a big change from her last stint in power - no statues, memorials or parks.

Uttar Pradesh politician Mayawati on Tuesday justified her life-size statues built in Uttar Pradesh with crores in public money when she was Chief Minister, telling the Supreme Court they represent the "will of the people".

A day after the Supreme Court suggested that former UP Chief Minister Mayawati return the crores she had spent on statues installed in parks across Lucknow and Noida, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief urged that the observation of the top court shouldn't be "distorted".

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav Friday said BSP's lawyers will present their side before the Supreme Court, which expressed a tentative view that party chief Mayawati has to deposit the public money used for erecting statues to the state exchequer.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has to reimburse the public money spent on installing hundreds of elephant statues in parks in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow and Noida, the Supreme Court said today.The elephant is the symbol of the Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP.

Memorials with giant statues of elephants and BSP icons, built during Mayawati's rule in Uttar Pradesh, were under scrutiny today as the Enforcement Directorate raided half a dozen places in state capital Lucknow. The raids come weeks after the CBI launched an inquiry into the role of Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati's alliance partner in UP for the nation...

On a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the 'Statue of Unity', the world's tallest statue dedicated to freedom icon Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has asked the BJP and its ideological mentor RSS to apologise for criticising her government for getting statues of Dalit icons installed in parks in Uttar Pradesh.

Unlike the last Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, statues of elephants, the BSP's poll symbol doting various parks and memorials in Lucknow and in Noida, will not be under wraps this time.

No political party would be allowed to use public funds and government machinery to publicise its political symbol, the Election Commission has said, amid a legal tussle over elephant statues in Uttar Pradesh installed during the Bahujan Samaj Party's rule.

Delhi High Court on Friday remanded back to the Election Commission a plea seeking cancellation of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) symbol 'Elephant', for alleged misuse of public funds by the erstwhile Mayawati government in installing statues of the pachyderm across the state.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati today strongly condemned the alleged vandalisation of party founder Kanshi Ram's statue in Haryana and demanded action against the guilty.

Mayawati, immortalized in dozens of statues in sprawling memorials in Lucknow and near Delhi, promised today: "No more memorials if I come to power."

When Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi visited Mumbai this week, he articulated his idea of honouring the Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhai Patel. Mr Modi told a gathering at the Indian Merchant's Chamber, "I want a huge statue of Sardar Patel to be built and I will name it the Statue of Unity.

The Lucknow police on Tuesday arrested two more persons in connection with the July 26 vandalism of former UP chief minister Mayawati's statue. The two arrested youth were identified as Meerut resident Pawan Sharma and Shagun Tyagi of Bijnor.