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Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav laid the foundation stone of the proposed Janeshwar Mishra Park in Gomti Nagar on the occasion of birth anniversary of Mishra, on Sunday. The park, proposed to sprawl over an area of over 300 acres will have plantation, public utility services, cycle and walking track and water bodies.

The park happens to be a dream project of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav who had asked his son and UP CM Akhilesh Yadav to dedicate a park in the name of Janeshwar Mishra, also known as 'Chotey Lohia'. Part of a huge green belt sprawling over an area of nearly 600 acres, the park, interestingly, was named as Ambedkar Green Garden. However, soon after Samajwadi Party came to power, it proposed a park in the name of Janeshwar Mishra in Gomtinagar. The site had been under court scrutiny following a petition by Gomtinagar Jan Kalyan Mahasamiti after Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) changed the land use of the site from green to a residential colony, Vyom Khand. Later, the land was converted back into a green belt even as LDA went on to plant over one lakh saplings in the area. LDA officials said that all the activities in the area will confirm to the present land use - green belt.