The Bahujan Samaj Occasion (BSP) and BJP engaged in a confrontation on Tuesday over the laying of the inspiration of the Ambedkar Cultural Centre.
BSP chief Mayawati known as the transfer a pre-poll act of “deceit” and “deception” by the ruling BJP to serve its electoral curiosity. Had it not been “deceit”, “deception” and “drama” earlier than the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Meeting polls, “the president would have been inaugurating the centre and never laying the inspiration stone”, she mentioned.
Reacting to Mayawati’s allegation, Uttar Pradesh Labour Minister Swami Prasad Maurya advised reporters that the Bahujan Samaj Occasion (BSP) supremo ought to really feel blissful that by the efforts of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the inspiration of the Ambedkar Cultural Centre was laid.
Questioning the timing of the occasion, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Occasion (SBSP) chief OP Rajbhar mentioned, “When the Meeting polls are barely six months away, you might be laying the inspiration stone of the Ambedkar Cultural Centre, putting in idols of Suheldev. These are solely makes an attempt by the BJP to seize votes.” Reacting to the allegations of the BSP chief, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya mentioned, “Until now, the panchteerth — the 5 locations related to Babasaheb Ambedkar — was once mentioned. Lucknow goes to be the sixth ‘teerth’ for Babasaheb and it ought to have been welcomed. Mayawati ought to cease sporting a political lens.” The BSP supremo sought to undermine the Adityanath authorities’s transfer, asserting that this regime isn’t any completely different than the earlier ones led by Akhilesh Yadav and the Congress in denying the rights of Dalits and backward class individuals.
She made these allegations in a sequence of tweets quickly after President Ram Nath Kovind laid the inspiration stone of the memorial, to be named after Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar, which is to return up on a sprawling plot measuring almost 5,500 sq. metre within the state capital. It would even have a 25-foot-high statue of Ambedkar. The price of the undertaking is estimated to be over Rs 45 crore.
“The laying of the inspiration of a cultural centre within the identify of Babasaheb now, when the Meeting polls are nearing — what’s it, if not a drama, after neglecting crores of Babasaheb’s followers for nearly your entire interval they’ve been in energy?” Mayawati requested. In one other tweet, she mentioned, “The BSP is just not towards the establishing of any centre within the identify of the extremely venerable Babasaheb, however doing all this now for the sake of electoral curiosity is a gross deception.” “Had the Uttar Pradesh authorities carried out this work earlier, the president would have been inaugurating the centre and never laying the inspiration stone,” the previous chief minister mentioned.
She didn’t spare the earlier Samajwadi Occasion (SP) or the Congress governments both. “in resorting to such deceit and drama, nobody is any lower than the opposite — whether or not it’s the BJP authorities or that of the SP or the Congress,” Mayawati mentioned.
“In crushing the rights of Dalits and backwards and heaping injustice and atrocities on them, all of them are the identical — that is identified to all and really unlucky. “In consequence, lakhs of presidency posts reserved for Dalits and backward class persons are mendacity vacant,” she mentioned.
Mayawati additionally lamented that “the world-class grand buildings and parks constructed by the BSP authorities within the identify of their saints, gurus and nice males in Uttar Pradesh have been grossly uncared for for the reason that earlier SP regime took over and the state of affairs continues below the BJP authorities”. This pattern is commendable, she mentioned sarcastically.
Swami Prasad Maurya mentioned, “Mayawati is the nationwide president of the Bahujan Samaj Occasion, which was fashioned as part of Dr B R Ambedkar’s mission. She ought to really feel blissful that by the efforts of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the inspiration of the Ambedkar Cultural Centre was laid at this time.” “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given respect to Babasaheb by creating 5 memorials within the type of pilgrimage spots at locations related to him. These 5 spots are in Ambedkar’s birthplace in Mhow, Deeksha Bhoomi in Nagpur, Parinirvaan Sthal in Delhi, Chaitanya Bhoomi in Mumbai and the Ambedkar Memorial Dwelling in London,” he added.
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