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SC Dismisses Maya’s Plea to Maintain Statues

The Supreme Court had dismissed UP chief minister Mayawati’s plea for permission to undertake maintenance and certain other works at the controversial Rs 2,600 crores Ambedkar site in Lucknow.

A bench comprising Justices HS Bedi and JM Panchal observed that there was “no change of circumstances” to allow such relief to the state government which was earlier restrained by it from carrying out any further activities at the site.

Nevertheless, the apex court pointed out that the plea would be examined for merits when the main matter relating to the issue would come up on November 30.

Filing an urgent petition, the state government had sought permission to go-ahead with the maintenance work on the plea that lakhs of people would be flocking to the site on December 6 on the occasion of the birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar.

Appearing for the petitioner, senior counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Mithilesh Kumar Singh and Gomti Nagar Sanstha, opposed any such relief on the ground that the state government cannot be trusted as it had earlier violated the undertaking given by it to the Supreme Court that there would be no construction activities.

The apex court had earlier by three separate orders restrained all construction and maintenance activities at the site where scores of memorials and statues of various dalit icons and Mayawati were being made.

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