http://blog.taragana.com/politics/2010/01/29/memorials-will-not-cost-any-more-money-says-mayawati-15988/Memorials will not cost any more money, says Mayawati
By IANS
January 29th, 2010
LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Friday claimed that
the memorials and statues erected by her in Lucknow and in Noida will
not put any further drain on the state exchequer.
Replying to the discussion in the state assembly here on the motion of
thanks to the Governor's address, she said: "I would like to clarify
that we have not made any further allocations towards the memorials
with effect from the next financial year."
Contrary to clear cut allocation of more than Rs.5,000 crore in the
past budgets, Mayawati claimed that only one percent of the state's
annual budget was allocated towards the memorials. Uttar Pradesh's
budget is of the order of about Rs.120,000 crore.
This was at variance with the state government's own admission before
the country's apex court of about Rs.2,600 crore being spent on these
memorials.
Intending to justify the expenditure, she said: "This would not have
been required if the past governments had cared to show some respect
towards different dalit icons in whose memory nothing was ever built".
"On the other hand, successive government - both at the centre and the
states - only concentrated on building memorials in the name of their
own leaders," she said, adding that the upkeep and security of these
monuments have been costing the state exchequer a fortune "about which
no body talks".
Simultaneously, she also blamed the central government for turning
down her repeated demand for a special grant of Rs.80,000 crore for
the desired development of the state's backward regions of Bundelkhand
and Purvanchal.
"The central government has not paid any heed to my repeated requests
for a special economic package of Rs.80,000 crore for Bundelkhand and
Purvanchal," she lamented.
Giving out a long list of development works undertaken across the
state, she flayed the opposition for painting a false picture about
her government's working. "The extent of work that my government has
done for the larger good of the state and its people cannot be matched
by any past government," Mayawati claimed.
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