On Monday at a Silver Jubilee Celebration of the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Garland was placed around Mayawati's neck. Congress says that it is worth whopping 22.5 million rupees.
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh accused Mayawati for destroying proof to avoide tax investigation. He has calculated the number of notes, which are used in the garland.
He said “I had it calculated - this garland. Each ring of this garland has 45 notes of 1000 denomination, i.e 45,000 rupees. Each centimeter has got five such rings. 5 x 45,000 is Rs 2, 25,000. This garland is 10 meters long i.e. 1000 cm. So 2.25 lakh x 1000 becomes Rs 22 crore 50 lakh. So there is a reason why I came to this figure,"
Meanwhile, the Bahujan Samaj Party has blamed opposition parties of without cause raking up the issue of garland made of money.
“Now the garland has been dismantled and the money transferred to party account”, Said by NDTV source. Now BSP is open to an inquiry, according to some sources. However, the BSP Leader claims that this is the Centre's (Congress led UPA government) way of targeting the party due to its successful rally. Party workers of BSP say that the Garland built of thousand rupee notes is "with the Chief Minister of UP, where it belongs".
The Garland was so grand that it looked over the top even at a rally that cost 200 crores. The Garland's total money is came from own donors and members despite of the Income tax department will investigate who paid for it, and how.
A minister in Mayawati's government, Naseemuddin Siddiqui says the garland "came from the Lucknow unit (of the BSP) and was ready with the charity of the workers here. We are all a part of it...its cost is 21 lakh rupees."
On Tuesday, The BSP held the meeting for the legal opinion on the issue at Mayawati's residence. On this meeting Opposition leaders claim the garland is worth several crores. But Siddiqui says their math is incorrect.
Source: www.ndtv.com/news/india/mayawatis-garland-worth-rs-225-crore-says-congress-17862
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