Presently notwithstanding BSP chief Mayawati has made a declaration that she will no longer install statues in Uttar Pradesh if voted back to power, her supporters will be banking heavily on her statues for campaigning in the 2017 polls.
Sources have stated that a local sculptor has been roped in to carve out some 150 statues of 'Behenji' in her favorite pose to be installed at election offices and other places by BSP candidates in the coming elections for campaigning purposes.
Amarnath Prajapati, the sculptor has told that the order for these statues have come in from individuals who supposedly are supporters of BSP candidates and he has been asked to deliver them well before the elections that are due early next year.
Earlier Mayawati had said in Lucknow on April 14 on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti and she had also defended the decision to install her own statues by claiming that it was the wish of her mentor Kanshi Ram.
