How often have we seen those accusing others of doing something doing the same thing themselves?
Mayawati has for long been under fire from the Congress for putting up statues of dalit leaders, including herself, in UP. But now, the Congress party is all set to to outdo Mayawati who has only
six statues of herself in Lucknow.
As per Health Minister Danam Nagender,
at least 30 statues of YSR Reddy are going to be installed in Hyderabad alone. Not hard to imagine how many more will come up in the rest of the state. This is on top of a
massive 1,412 hectare memorial that is being set up in Nallamalla forest where Reddy died in a helicopter crash.
At this rate, India will soon be filled with statues and memorials of politicians. What a shame.
After all the noise it made about the
dalit memorials being constructed by Mayawati in UP, the Congress first showed its “might” on August 20, when huge full and half page advertisements were put out in all newspapers by various government departments to
remember Rajiv Gandhi on his birthday.
But that was clearly small change. A couple of days back, the Congress government in Maharashtra announced that it would build a Rs 350 crore Shivaji memorial, which will have his statue in bronze, one kilometer off the Mumbai coast.
Mayawati says the Noida dalit memorial will be better than the Delhi
Akshardham Temple that is already being called the Eighth Wonder by some. Chavan says Shivaji's statue will be
taller than the Statue of Liberty.
Will some BJP CM announce a memorial higher than the Eiffel Tower next?
Mayawati is elated that many Central government departments put out huge advertisements in newspapers on August 20, to
“remember” Rajiv Gandhi on his birthday at enormous state expense. That has taken the heat off her for the money she's spending on building her own statues. Ministers and CEOs know what it takes to survive in the Gandhi “jungle”. No one wants to be thrown out of this “rain” forest by claimants shouting “Iss jungle mein mujhe bulao!”
Sagarika Ghose
tweets on Twitter: “200 govt schemes named after Rajiv Gandhi alone, 400 named after Gandhi Nehru family! We should be Gandhistan”. I think Congressmen should have a common surname: Gandhidass. No caste identification, only two classes: royalty and “dasses” (servants), the latter distinguishable from you-know-who-what by the prefix “d”, and happily saying “I'm lovin' it”.
