Mayawti: Maneka want

(SANEPR.com) April 6, 2009 -- New Delhi, (DMA Newsdesk): U P Chief Minister today lashed out at Pilibhit MP Maneka Gandhi for trying to gain political mileage by politicizing the Varun Gandhi controversy.
The Chief Minister hit out at Maneka Gandhi for saying that she Mayawati doesn't understand the pain of a mother.

"Maneka forgets that even without being a mother you can understand pain of a million people just like Mother Teresa did. Maneka is so absorbed in love for her one son that she forgot that if there were any communal riots overVarun Gandhi’s statement many mothers would have lost their sons," Mayawati said addressing a rally today.

The Chief Minister said Maneka Gandhi should apologize for making such statements. Maneka was not allowed to meet her son and candidate from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi, who is currently lodged in Etah jail in Uttar Pradesh.

"I want to make it clear we have not issued any prohibitory orders. We have just requested Maneka Gandhi that she should not meet her son Varun as per the jail administration rules," District Magistrate Gaurav Dayal stated.

"According to rules, only two meetings with jail inmates are allowed in a week. And in the case of Varun, these two meetings have already been conducted," said Dayal.

Varun was allowed to meet his mother on Wednesday and had met even BJP leaders on Thursday, officials said.

"We have just requested Maneka Gandhi that she should not visit this week in the (Etah) jail to meet her son and abide by the general rules of the jail administration. I am nobody to prevent a mother from meeting her son," Dayal added.

The issue came to light when Maneka, in a statement to a news channel called the restriction as "frivolous" and "the result of political vendetta".

"Mayawati is not mother that's why she would not understand a mother's pain," Maneka Gandhi had said.

BJP leaders then took up the issue and planned widespread agitations beginning Saturday morning.

In no mood to grant the saffronites a political mileage, the state government on Friday evening issued a written clarification stating that no restrictions whatsoever have been imposed on Maneka meeting her son.

Varun Gandhi, who is in jail as he faces charges under the National Security Act following campaign speeches vilifying Muslims that have purportedly been delivered by him.