Two 55 kg cakes are waiting to be cut on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's 55th birthday on Saturday.
While one of these cakes would be cut by Mayawati herself at the official celebration in the morning at the newly constructed state-of-art Ambedkar auditorium on the sprawling campus of Ram Manohar Lohia Law University in Lucknow, the other cake would be cut by a group of local citizens later in the day.
This was being done at the initiative of Lucknow Sindhi Association in collaboration with traders of the city's main shopping street, Hazratganj that has witnessed a remarkable makeover on its completion of 200 years.
"We are cutting the cake to celebrate the chief minister's 55th birthday, which coincides with the 200th anniversary of Hazratganj, whose old glory has been restored because of her kind disposition. As traders of Hazratganj, we wish to also offer our gratitude to her in this manner," Sindhi Samaj president and leading Hazratganj trader Murlidhar Ahuja told
rediff.com.
The official birthday celebrations would commence at 10 am with the inauguration of Ambedkar Auditorium, which would be followed by unveiling of plaques of various welfare schemes and development projects worth Rs 4000 crore by the chief minister.
The projects include some memorials, statues, construction of roads, bridges, flyovers and sewage treatment plants, water
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