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IANS | Lucknow
A statue of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has been removed from a prominent location by the authorities here barely 45 days after she unveiled it, officials said.<b> She wants a bigger statue of herself in its place.</b>   

The operation to remove the bronze statue was carried out late on Sunday with lights in the vicinity switched off.

"Mayawati did not like the statue. The sculpture will soon be replaced by a bigger one," an official said on condition of anonymity.

Officials said the <b>CM was not happy with the quality of the sculpture</b>. She had also expressed her displeasure over the fact that<b> it was smaller than the statue of her political mentor Kanshi Ram</b>.

<b>The two statues were installed side by side at the start of Mayawati's dream project - the Rs 5 billion Ambedkar Park in Lucknow's posh Gomti Nagar. Across the road are statues of her BSP's most revered icon Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar and his wife Rama Bai Ambedkar</b>.

The four statues were unveiled simultaneously on April 14 - Ambedkar's birth anniversary.
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