Lucknow, Sep 10 (Inditop.com) Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Thursday said the Mayawati government could be termed “unconstitutional” for flouting orders of the Supreme Court to stop all work at memorial projects across Uttar Pradesh.
Accusing Mayawati of having turned into an “unbridled dictator”, he also threatened to get all the structures pulled down, once his party was voted back to power.
“The manner in which the Mayawati government was going about defying the orders of the Supreme Court is sufficient reason for the apex court to declare it unconstitutional,” he said, referring to the continuing construction at various sites of Mayawati’s multi-billion dream projects despite the apex court’s specific directives to suspend all work.
“Since Mayawati’s actions have clearly displayed her open contempt for the country’s highest judicial forum, we, as a political party, would have to act and run a bulldozer over the buildings and monuments erected by her with public money on public land worth hundreds of crores,” he said, addressing a press conference here.
Mulayam Singh, a former chief minister of the state, also flayed Mayawati for pulling down the Lucknow jail complex to expand Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder Kanshi Ram’s memorial already erected on a sprawling 25-acre plot of land also belonging to the jail. The Rs.750 crore memorial will soon have an adjoining 50-acre Kanshi Ram Eco Park.
Justifying his intention to pull down Mayawati’s memorials, Mulayam Singh noted that the statue of well known socialist parliamentarian Ram Manohar Lohia had been razed by the Mayawati administration.
“It is clearly visible how the taxpayer’s money has been misused for building memorials after a particular set of select leaders, as if to say that they were the only ones to merit that kind of recognition and respect,” he said.
Questioning Mayawati’s fad for eulogising her political icons through statues and memorials, he asked: “Are they the only ones who have made some contribution to the nation?”
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