India's "Dalit Queen" Mayawati goes on a statue-erecting spree, many dedicated to herself!!!

Mayawati, the controversial 'queen' of India's 'untouchable' Dalit caste, has been ordered to explain why she has spent millions of pounds of public money on statues of herself.

The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, one of India's poorest states, was ordered by the Supreme Court to account for the erection of 15 sandstone memorials to Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, the Dalit author of the Indian constitution; her late mentor Kanshi Ram, the founder of her Bahujan Samaj Party; and herself. More...

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