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To her many critics who accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for wasting public money on building her own statues, she has a stock answer: "The Government spent 99 per cent of funds on development and only one per cent on construction of statues." To support her claim she even made the utilisation of development funds public, becoming the first chief minister in the country to do so.

Publication Date: 
19/07/2010
Farzand Ahmed [2]
India Today (New Delhi) [3]
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