Minister in the UP Government, Swami Prasad Maurya came on a whirlwind tour of Ghaziabad to inaugurate a statue of Mahatma Buddha in Ghaziabad. Needless to say, the gathering was mostly of Dalits. To our utter surprise, their leaders were complaining how their organization (that was hosting the program) was at one point of time hijacked by the RSS lobby and how they were able to slowly bring out the organization from under the RSS shackles.
Swami Prasad Maurya made a quick ‘you blink and you miss it’ entry and exit so much so that by the time the people in the pandal got to know of his arrival, he was already gone. The little time that he was there was spent in paying floral tributes to the statue of Mahatma Buddha.
Much to our amazement, as soon as the minister was gone, the local corporator and executive member of Nagar Nigam-Ghaziabad Sanjay Sharma got up on an elevated platform to give a short speech how he got this work sanctioned through his own efforts and the work was completed through his funds.
Reminded us of another some back in which another minister from UP was quick to grab the opportunity of laying the foundations of a mega project in Sonia Gandhi’s own constituency. The project was sanctioned by the Central Government.
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