Don’t tinker with my parks,memorials,Maya warns govt

The BSP government had not even touched the employees deployed for supervising such parks,she said,while addressing a small gathering of followers of Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar at Samajik Parivartan Prateek Sthal on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti.

The Mayawati government had been under fire for its huge expenditure on parks and statues installed in Lucknow and Noida.

Reacting to Mayawati’s remarks,Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav,who is in New Delhi,said the statues installed by the previous regime will b e protected but there was nothing wrong in utilising the land in the parks and memorials to build hospitals.

“The memorials will not be tampered with. But when there are thousand acres of land available (within the parks and memorials built by Mayawati),these can be used for building hospitals for children and women. There is nothing wrong in that,” he said.

In Lucknow,SP spokesperson Rajendra Choudhari said Mayawati’s statement showed the level of frustration she faces after her party’s exit from power. Choudhari said Mayawati should not be troubled by the works which are in public interest.

Choudhari added that Akhilesh had made it clear that the BSP government had acquired unnecessary land in these parks and memorials and the same land could be used for setting up women and child hospitals,besides schools and colleges.