LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday warned that if the monuments and memorial sites dedicated to the Bahujan Samaj Party icons here were demolished, a serious law and order situation would arise in the country.
President’s Rule would have to be imposed. “The Congress and the Samajwadi Party would be responsible for this,” she said.
She was addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone for the Manyavar Shri Kanshi Ramji Green (Eco) Garden here.
Denying that her government violated the Supreme Court’s orders on suspending construction work at the memorial sites, Ms. Mayawati accused the Samajwadi Party and the Congress of indulging in a “malicious and mischievous propaganda.”
“Wrong facts”
She also accused a section of the media of presenting “wrong facts” pertaining to work at the memorial sites and cautioned the media against becoming a tool in the Opposition game plan.
The Chief Secretary had submitted an affidavit in the court.
She said work was going on only at those sites against which no writ petition had been filed and no stay granted by the court.
The Chief Minister dubbed the Congress ‘anti-Dalit’ and said thousands of crores of rupees were spent on building memorials, parks, statues and museums in the name of members of the Gandhi and Nehru families.
“It seems eminent persons belong only to these two families and when crores have been spent on building memorials for them the Congress does not say that money has been misused.”
The Green Eco Garden is being developed on 160 acres on which the old Lucknow jail once stood.
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