Mayawati creates history
29 Jan 2010, 0603 hrs IST, ET Bureau
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister's latest move would be considered
unusual even in a country with a monarchial tradition like Britain,
whose spies
are said to be On Her Majesty's Secret Service (OHMSS). If the British
parliament adopted a bill like the one recently moved by the UP
government, OHMSS could even stand for On Her Majesty's Statue
Service! A special task force (STF) of 1,000 policemen is to be set up
to guard the 10 memorials in UP — 9 in Lucknow, one in Noida —
featuring Mayawati's statues along with those of Ambedkar and Kanshi
Ram.
The Supreme Court had stayed the construction of more such memorials,
responding to a petition alleging expenditure of crores of rupees of
public money on these statues. UP, whose ratio of policemen per every
100,000 people is among the lowest in India, will now have the world's
best ratio for cops protecting statues, especially those of Ms
Mayawati, who could cite Opposition leader Mulayam Singh's threat to
pull down the statues, if his party regained power, to defend the new
force.
Mayawati's advisers could well ask whether a squad of 1,000 cops is
alone enough to protect these statues from all those harbouring
nefarious designs. For instance, can a land-based force foil pigeons
which relieve thermselves on statues in even the most developed
nations? The historic statue in London's Trafalgar Square has to be
scrubbed to remove traces of bird droppings so often that, four
decades ago, the wife of the then British prime minister Harold Wilson
wrote a poem which began, "They are cleaning Lord Nelson".
If Lucknow's pigeons are as poorly toilet-trained as their London
counterparts, the only way to maintain the pristine purity of the
Mayawati memorials would be to have a mini air-force of pilots in
planes to chase away approaching birds. Competitions could be held to
decide which is the cleanest memorial and the officer in charge could
be fast-tracked for promotion!
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