Make Babri panel report public, punish guilty: Mayawati

September 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has now been painted in shades of divinity. A 25-year-old painter has projected Mayawati as a goddess in several paintings on display at Lalit Kala Akademi here.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Kalyan Singh, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday said he was ready to face and answer every question if the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid was tabled in parliament. Now the report has come to the government and if the government wants then it can table the report in this session of parliament.

July 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Wednesday issued an alert to her officials to take all possible security measures to prevent any kind of violence as a fallout of the publication of the Babri Masjid demolition probe report. Though the Liberhan Commission report was yet to be made public, it is feared that its contents could spark off trouble in communally sensitive pockets across different parts of the country, including Uttar Pradesh.

July 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) Wednesday said its members would discuss the Babri Masjid probe report in its executive body meet at Kozhikode July 12. "Even though the (Liberhan) Commission has taken 17 years instead of three months to submit its report, we would still like to know what the report has to say about the martyrdom of the 16th century Babri Masjid," senior board member Maulana Khalid Rasheed told IANS here.

June 30th, 2009 BHOPAL - As the Liberhan Commission probe report on the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was submitted to the government Tuesday, former Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader Uma Bharati said she does not regret the destruction and would be ready to be hanged if found guilty. "I wanted the old structure to be destroyed though not in that way," Uma Bharati, now heading the Bharatiya Janshakti Party after quitting the BJP, told reporters here.

June 30th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Asking the central government to make public the Liberhan Commission report , Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Tuesday alleged that the Congress was as much responsible as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. "Timely intervention by the Congress, which was ruling at the centre at that time, could have prevented the demolition of the Babri Masjid," Mayawati told reporters here.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday urged the Election Commission to serve a notice to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for using public money to install statues, including of herself, in Lucknow. "We request the Election Commission to serve a notice to Mayawati on the issue.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Justice (retd) M.S. Liberhan Monday said he was feeling independent and relieved after submitting the report of the Liberhan Commission that was formed 17 years ago to enquire into the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid.

June 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party Monday suggested Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati spend public money more on people's welfare than for putting up memorials and statues, including of herself. "Mayawati has been lavishly spending public money on building memorials and statues.

May 19th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Further strengthening the stability to the new United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday said that her party would give outside support to the Congress-led alliance without any condition. Mayawati further said that her party has agreed to provide outside support of all 21 MPs to the UPA Government without any condition.

May 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) party chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Monday asked for the resignation of over 50 party leaders heading various corporations, official sources said. After becoming chief minister in 2007, Mayawati had given plum postings to several of her party leaders, with many given red-beacon cars and enjoying facilities and perks given to ministers of state.

May 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati continues to shun the media as much as she avoids any direct contact with the public. A leading media baron-cum-celebrated journalist moved heaven and earth to get an appointment with Mayawati but to no avail.

April 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Saturday issued notice to senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh for allegedly threatening to 'use' the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. Terming it as violation of the model code of conduct, the panel asked him to reply by 5 p.m.

March 27th, 2009 JAMMU - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Friday asked the Congress party to explain what had happened to its promise to rebuild the Babri mosque in Ayodhya. 'I want to ask both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gnadhi as to why they have not been able to construct the Babri mosque, which they had promised more than one and a half decade ago,' Singh said, addressing a public rally at the Parade Ground here.

March 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati will launch her party's election campaign from Kerala and will hold a series of public rallies till May 11. 'My campaign starts from tomorrow (Saturday) and I will hold a series of public meetings in all corners of the country till May 11 without missing a single day,' Mayawati told reporters here.