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Jumbo cover-up job

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published Published on Jan 9, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 9, 2012

-The Telegraph

The Election Commission has set January 11 as the deadline to cover statues of all political leaders and their party symbols before Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, a decision the CPI called “irrational” today.

“The whole work of veiling the statues should be completed by 5pm on 11th January 2012. The district election officer of the districts concerned shall submit to the commission a compliance report in this regard by 7pm on 11th January, 2012,” a statement released by the poll panel said today.

Yesterday, the Election Commission had said that statues of Mayawati and her party symbol, the elephant, would have to be kept veiled till the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh were over. The directive holds for all other political parties.

While the ruling BSP said the move was unfair to Dalits, the CPI asked what the Election Commission would do to live elephants.

“It appears irrational and the EC should have thought of all aspects before taking this action relating to symbols. You have live elephants, how will you cover them?” asked CPI leader D. Raja.

“This decision will give rise to several complications. It is impractical to implement,” PTI quoted Raja. “There are symbols like hand pumps. Are you going to cover all these?”

Janata Dal (United) chief Sharad Yadav said: “There is no point in covering statues. The statues are concrete proof to the fact that public money has been wasted.”

The poll panel has justified its decision saying that it wanted a level playing field for all political parties.

The expenses for covering the statues would be borne by the local authorities under whose jurisdiction areas the statues have been erected, the poll panel order said.

Some workers were seen carrying plastic covers to the Ambedkar Memorial in the Gomti Nagar area of Lucknow this morning but they uncovered the statues after having wrapped some of them in plastic because they said they had not got the poll panel’s order yet.

“We will start the work as soon as we get the orders,” a senior Lucknow Development Authority official told PTI.District magistrate Anil Kumar Sagar, who also happens the district election officer, told PTI that his office had not got the order. “I have not received the orders (for covering the statues) from the EC yet. It’s evening now and becoming dark.… We will see what can be done in this regard tomorrow,” Sagar said.


The Telegraph, 9 January, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120109/jsp/nation/story_14981450.jsp


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