Mayawati Statues Noida

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  Mayawati Justifies Her Statues In Top Court: "Represent Will Of People"

  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".

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  "Don't Distort," Says Mayawati On Supreme Court's Reimburse Money Observation

  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".

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  Mayawati Has To Reimburse Money Spent On Elephant Statues, Says Top Court

  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.

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  UP Elections 2017: Elephant Statues Won't Be Covered In This Assembly Polls

  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.

• Mayawati's elephant statues: Could be a 40,000 crore scam, says Akhilesh Yadav

  Police in Lucknow have begun investigations into an alleged financial fraud in the elephants statues installed by the BSP government in Lucknow and Noida. The police allege tender norms were possibly tailor-made to favour certain contractors, who sold the stone statues to the government at highly inflated prices.

• Alleged irregularities in installation of elephant statues in UP parks

  A search was carried out on Monday at the office of Rajkiya Nirman Nigam (RNN) in Gomti Nagar for alleged irregularities in installation of statues of elephants at parks in Lucknow and Noida, police said.

• Uttar Pradesh polls: Covers come off Mayawati's statues in Lucknow, Noida

  A day after the seven-phase polls ended in Uttar Pradesh, the covers have gone off the statues of chief minister Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) symbol, the elephant, which were under the wraps for almost two months on the direction of the Election Commission (EC) for the assembly polls.

• Uttar Pradesh government drapes all statues of Mayawati, BSP poll symbol

  Authorities today completed draping statues of Uttar Pradesh Chief Mayawati and the BSP poll symbol, elephant, at various parks and memorials in Lucknow and Noida, even as the Allahabad High Court dismissed a PIL challenging the Election Commission (EC) order.

• With just one day to go, covering up statues of Mayawati, elephant begins

  They have been given time till 5 pm on Wednesday by the Election Commission and UP's jumbo cover-up operation has only just begun. Authorities in Lucknow and Noida have started draping giant statues of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati and the elephant, the symbol of her Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) in pink - plastic for the elephants, cloth f...

• UP's monumental cover up: Officials work out logistics of covering Mayawati's statues

  Local administration officials in Noida and Lucknow began 'Operation Cover-Up' today. Most of the day was spent on working out the finer details like which agency will have the honour of covering up the hundreds of elephant and 11 giant Mayawati statues across the state, and what colour plastic should be used. And while meetings through the day fai...