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SC rejects Mayawati's petition on Ambedkar site in Lucknow | The Supreme Court today rejected Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's appeal for permission to commence maintenance and other related works at the debated Ambedkar site in Lucknow. A two-judge bench
comprising Justice H S Bedi and Justice J M Panchal sensed that there was "no
change in the state of affairs" to grant any respite to the State Government to
go ahead with further construction at the Ambedkar site. The apex court said that
it would look into the petition on merit, when the matter would come up on November
30. The Uttar Pradesh Government had filed an urgent application seeking consent
to begin maintenance work on the plea that lakhs of people would be thronging
the site on December 6, the birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar. Senior counsel
Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for the opposing petitioner, Mithilesh Kumar
Singh and Gomti Nagar Sanstha, resisted any such relief on the ground that the
State Government cannot be believed, as it had earlier violated the undertaking
given by it to the Supreme Court that there would be no construction activities.
Earlier, the apex court had reserved all construction and maintenance activities
at the site, where statues of various Dalit icons including Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati are being built. |
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