Reacting to the ‘Shivalaya Park’ proposal, Mayawati earlier registered her sturdy objection, saying that the spiritual website of one other religion inside the Gautam Buddha Park was “extremely inappropriate” and risked disturbing social concord. In a press release on X, Mayawati stated the park holds emotional and non secular worth for Buddhists and Ambedkarites, and any adjustments would undermine its sanctity.

“The federal government should withdraw this proposal instantly, in any other case it could result in unrest and hatred among the many individuals,” Mayawati wrote on X, and afterwards, BSP staff staged a protest Tuesday close to the Gautam Buddha Park in Kalyanpur.

Azad opposed the plan by writing to the CM, calling the Gautam Buddha Park a logo of compassion, equality, and fraternity related to Buddha and Ambedkar and warning that turning it into a non secular website would damage the emotions of the Bahujan neighborhood. Affirming his respect for spiritual freedom, Chandrashekhar Azad insisted that such tasks be developed on separate land to keep away from any confrontations.

The ‘Shivalaya Park’ was initially proposed by the Kanpur Municipal Company on the Gautam Buddha Park premises, with the Kanpur Growth Authority (KDA) subsequently clearing it, and commissioner Sudhir Kumar conducting a website inspection. On the time, officers had informed ThePrint that the challenge—initially proposed at Shatabdi Park within the Rooma space of the district—was later shifted to Gautam Buddha Park.

Nonetheless, when submitting this report, there was no readability on the place the federal government, which succumbed to the political and public pushback to its preliminary proposal, would shift the  ‘Shivalaya Park’ challenge.

Buddha Park from the Mayawati interval

Mayawati commissioned the event of the Gautam Buddha Park in 1997 throughout her second CM time period, as a part of her get together’s efforts to strengthen the Bahujan identification, in a transfer in direction of social justice.

Just a few weeks in the past, an issue erupted over studies that the well-known Gautam Buddha Park could be renamed ‘Shivalaya Park’.

The Buddhist Military organisation in Etah opposed the transfer, claiming the federal government was planning such a change. Led by its state president Kanhaiya Lal Shakya, the group members submitted a memorandum to the sub-district Justice of the Peace.

Nonetheless, the civic company later denied having any such proposal to rename the park.

UP BJP’s Scheduled Caste Morcha has been looking for a middle-ground resolution because the begin of the controversy over the positioning of the proposed ‘Shivalaya Park’.

Talking to ThePrint, its chief Ram Chandra Kanaujia stated, “There ought to be a middle-ground resolution to this concern. Lord Buddha is a revered determine. We maintain equal respect for Lord Shiva, as effectively. We are not looking for any confrontation. Officers ought to seek the advice of our neighborhood leaders earlier than making a remaining resolution.”

(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)

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