The Mayawati goverment in Uttar Pradesh "misled" and "confused" the Supreme Court and filed a "false" affidavit denying further construction activities at the memorials for BSP founder Kanshiram and other Dalit leaders,a fresh counter-affidavit stated on Wednesday. In the counter-affidavit,Mithilesh Kumar,one of the petitioners on whose petition the construction was stayed by the apex court on Sepember 8,charged that the recent affidavit filed by the state government had deliberately coined new names for some of the structures to claim that they were not the subject matter of writ petitions in the Allahabad High Court. The apex court had earlier termed "unsatisfactory" the UP government's affidavit which,while denying any fresh constructions,also offered "most profuse apology for any transgression." "To mislead this hon'ble court and to create confusion,the state through its Chief Secretary has split one composite site into different projects and coined new names for them in an attempt to show that the projects with newly coined names are not covered under the writ petitions and on that basis continue construction at the disputed sites in the teeth of restrain orders," the counter-affidavit stated. According to it,Bhagidari Bhawan,Library,Police Chowki,are all part of the Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Sthal on which the apex court had stayed all further construction activities. It was,however,alleged the state government went ahead with the construction,inviting the wrath of a bench comprising Justices B N Aggrawal and Aftab Alam.
