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UP government races to restore Mayawati statue
Friday July 27, 2012 02:52:26 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: The Uttar
Pradesh government was Friday hurriedly restoring a life-sized
statue of former chief minister Mayawati to replace the one
vandalised the day before.
A replica of the marble statue of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
chief was found at the Sangeet Natak Academy (SNA) in Gomtinagar
late Thursday and the administration got down to restoring it at
1.30 a.m. itself.
District officials said they found an exact replica of the statue
broken Thursday. But the work would be completed only by Friday
noon, an official told IANS.
District Magistrate Anurag Yadav said restoration work had been
taken up and the sculptor, Sharawan Prajapati, had been
requisitioned.
No time was wasted. Cranes were pressed into service midnight to
lift the defunct statue, which was to be initially used at the
Manyavar Kanshiram Eco garden on Jail Road. It was not done due to
a stay by the Supreme Court.
The new statue is of the same height and weighs 750 kg. The
restoration work has saved the district administration around
Rs.15 lakh, an official said.
When Prajapati inspected the broken statue he told officials that
it was impossible to repair it because of the extent of damage
inflicted on it.
He said the statue was of very high grade marble and hence would
have to be done all over again.
Detailing the events, an official said the government was informed
of the dilemma following which a hunt was ordered for a replica
that was luckily found a few kilometres away.
Four unidentified vandals Thursday afternoon damaged the statue,
which was placed in the sprawling Ambedkar Park. It was damaged in
the head, arm and neck.
Protests erupted in many parts of the state following the
desecration, including in Muzaffarnagar, Jhansi and Ambedkarnagar,
with BSP supporters and workers taking to the streets and raising
anti-SP slogans.
BSP leaders Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Swamy Prasad Maurya, Daddu
Prasad and Nakul Dubey led the protest in Lucknow. They staged a
sit-in in front of the Vidhan Sabha and demanded the immediate
restoration of the statue.
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