Apologise for criticising Dalit leaders' statues: Mayawati to BJP
Hours after a â¹2,989-crore statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was inaugurated, BSP president Mayawati demanded an apology from "BJP, RSS and company" for allegedly calling statues of Dalit leaders installed by the then-BSP government "wasteful expenditure". While paying tributes to Patel on his birth anniversary, she said the statue's construction by a "foreign agency" will "haunt" his followers.