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That’s three days from now and after mulling all of today over how to do the needful for 10 statues of the chief minister (each about 15 feet high) and 90 stone elephants (about the same height), installed in 10 memorials and parks of Lucknow, the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) was none the wiser.
And that’s just the big elephants — there are smaller ones inside and outside the memorials and parks — and just the state capital.
Lucknow District Magistate Anil Kumar Sagar was wringing his hands over another matter: the Election Commission letter to him made no mention of the statues of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi had told the media Saturday that their statues would not escape its drive.
Officials of the LDA’s committee for “management, security and maintenance of memorials, museums, institutions, parks and upvans” pored over availability of polythene sheets to cover the statues, the efficacy of a brown fabric, the numbers under consideration and the metres to be multiplied today.
Finally, in the evening, Bhawna Singh, Manager (Public Relations), said they would hand over the work of draping to a private firm.
Assistant Manager Manish Kumar Maurya has an idea though of the task at hand, having measured the elephants: length 7,200 mm, width 4,200 mm, height 4,600 mm. They haven’t got around to Mayawati yet.
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Let EC change the election symbole of BSP, everything will be ok thereafter. Officials don't have to hide all the statue. Second thing, BSP chief Mayawati should be put behind bars for spending thousand of crores of public money for making all these nonsense.
Mayavati can open a plastic cover shop and again her assets will increase.the covers can be given out on hire on hourly basis,and there will be a trumpeting business.How about "Hand"symbol.An order could be promalgated that no Congress campaigner should stickout his/her pslm overhead and their hands tied behind their back while campaigning.
I wonder what would be the end story? is this EC going to say that she cant stand for elections? if they do then its worth of all this drammas, if not then it is again another blunder!
thank God, no one built statues of donkeys, that one would have been first to be covered.
Wise decision by the CEC. It shud never b allowed using public funds for the publicity of a leader or party. Let them buit it with their own money. Help the poor and use the public funds for the development of the nation.
How about changing BSP's election symbol, instead of covering them at poblic expense?
If we really want to stop the misuse of symbol then first symbol that should be chnaged is Hand. It f=gives unfairly adavanatge to a party.
what a collosal waste of public money'. she is heself probably verey ricjh she could have paid for her own statues, i am sure she is one of the top ten living leaders who installed their own statues (Stalin , Mau saddam hussein are other megalomaniac come to mnd. i hope some future govt when it comes to power they have a motto to remove(Not destry) all the statues and putthem in a museum all over