<p>A high-level meeting held in the Vidhana Soudha on Wednesday, to identify the place to relocate the statue of Dr B R Ambedkar to facilitate Namma Metro work, failed to arrive at a conclusion. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The meeting, attended by the Chief Secretary and senior officials of the Social Welfare, Public Works and other departments, had a long debate. The suggestion to relocate the statue to the West of the Soudha was not received well. It has been decided to hold another meeting on Saturday, said a senior PWD official.<br /><br />It has been more than 15 days since the government, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited and dalit groups arrived at a consensus before the High Court on shifting the statue. However, they are yet to fix the new location and date for shifting the statue.<br /><br />During the hearing of a related contempt petition in the High Court, Chief Secretary S V Ranganath filed an affidavit, stating that the government would soon identify the place to relocate the statue. <br /><br />“We were not able to hold a meeting up to March 11 as the model code of conduct for elections to ULBs was in force,” the affidavit said. <br /><br />In the affidavit, Ranganath said the High Court, in its earlier order, had permitted the government to undertake the work on relocating the statue without specifying any time period. <br /><br />The allegation of the petitioner about non-compliance of the previous court order was not maintainable and hence, the contempt petition had to be dropped, the affidavit said.</p>
<p>A high-level meeting held in the Vidhana Soudha on Wednesday, to identify the place to relocate the statue of Dr B R Ambedkar to facilitate Namma Metro work, failed to arrive at a conclusion. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The meeting, attended by the Chief Secretary and senior officials of the Social Welfare, Public Works and other departments, had a long debate. The suggestion to relocate the statue to the West of the Soudha was not received well. It has been decided to hold another meeting on Saturday, said a senior PWD official.<br /><br />It has been more than 15 days since the government, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited and dalit groups arrived at a consensus before the High Court on shifting the statue. However, they are yet to fix the new location and date for shifting the statue.<br /><br />During the hearing of a related contempt petition in the High Court, Chief Secretary S V Ranganath filed an affidavit, stating that the government would soon identify the place to relocate the statue. <br /><br />“We were not able to hold a meeting up to March 11 as the model code of conduct for elections to ULBs was in force,” the affidavit said. <br /><br />In the affidavit, Ranganath said the High Court, in its earlier order, had permitted the government to undertake the work on relocating the statue without specifying any time period. <br /><br />The allegation of the petitioner about non-compliance of the previous court order was not maintainable and hence, the contempt petition had to be dropped, the affidavit said.</p>
