After Maya statues, a temple for Mulayam

Nov 28, 2012 - Amita Verma |

Age Correspondent

Lucknow

Former UP chief minister Mayawati had her statues and now Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav will have a temple for himself.
Samajwadi Party leader Rajesh Saini is building a temple for Mulayam Singh Yadav in Aligarh.
The foundation stone for the temple was laid amidst chanting of mantras on November 22 which was the 74th birthday of Mr Yadav, in Nagla Mali near Dhanipur in Aligarh district.
According to Rajesh Saini, the temple will be 10 feet x 12 feet and the statue of the SP leader will be five feet tall.
The temple is estimated to cost around `10 lakhs and will be completed within one year.
It is likely to be thrown open to the public on the senior SP leader’s birthday in 2013.
According to Rajesh Saini, the decision to build a temple dedicated to Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav was taken after assessing his contribution towards upliftment of backward and Dalit classes. “It is my personal decision and I have not taken any favours for it,” says Rajesh Saini.
The land for the temple has been donated by Prahlad Saini, Chandra Pal Saini, Ram Prasad Saini, Om Prakash Saini and Bunty Saini while their supporters are happily donating money for the construction too.
Though the local SP unit is said to be opposing the temple and district president of Samajwadi Party, Rakshpal Singh, said that installing statue of living party leaders or the temple in their name was totally anti-socialist thinking and also against Lohia’s philosophy.
He said that he would send a report in this regard, if the party’s state unit asked him to.
However, there is no word on the temple from the Samajwadi Party yet.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/205905" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-1f3ab18bf91c78e3bdd14e27bda428c0" value="form-1f3ab18bf91c78e3bdd14e27bda428c0" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="86790196" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>