Lucknow, Aug 5 - The 60 red-stone elephants installed in the Rs.750 crore Ambedkar Park cum memorial here have nothing in common with the election symbol of Chief Minister Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), party general secretary Satish Chandra Misra said Wednesday.

Reacting to an Election Commission notice to BSP, Misra said in a statement: 'The elephants installed at the Ambedkar memorial are in a typically traditional welcome position with their trunks raised up in the air, while the elephant in the party symbol has its trunk in the normal posture.'

Criticising the opposition parties for raising the issue before the poll panel, he argued, 'We have introduced a scheme to gift bicycles to young girls. Would that be construed as promoting the Samajwadi Party, since bicycle is that party's symbol?'