`Rahul purifies himself after meeting Dalits`

Zeenews BureauAzamgarh, UP, April 07: UP Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday launched a scathing attack on Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi accusing him of misleading Dalits. Speaking at a rally here she alleged that Rahul performs purification rituals after meeting Dalits. She said that he washes himself with a special soap after interacting with Dalits. "Congress is losing no stone unturned to woo Dalits and is sending it`s prince (Rahul Gandhi) to live and eat with Dalits in various places just only to garner their votes. "I have also come to know that when this prince returns to his home in Delhi after meeting and eating with Dalits, he is given a bath with a special soap and he goes through purification rituals with incense and incense sticks," she said addressing a meeting here. Congress has strongly denied the allegations. Rahul Gandhi has been touring Dalit areas extensively in an attempt to reach out to the community. Last week at a Congress convention in Kanpur, Gandhi attacked Mayawati of only mouthing platitudes for Dalits, who, he said, were feeling "cheated" in Uttar Pradesh as no one seemed to care of them. On the occasion, he narrated the story of a Dalit who held his hand and took him to his house during his recent visit to Etawah and showed the pitiable condition in which he was living with no power and no basic amenities. Quoting that Dalit, he said "Indiaraji aur kanshiram hamare bare mein sochte the.... Hamare saath dhokha hua hai` (Indiraji and Kanshiram used to think about us...We have been cheated). The young Congress MP narrated another story from his experience during his 4-day tour of Karnataka and said that at a village he found some youth from UP working in a field there. On being asked why they were working in Karnataka, they told him that the "future of youths of UP lies in Karnataka". "These two stories tell us about the state of affairs in UP," he said adding these stories need to be re-written if Uttar Pradesh has to moved ahead.

Though I am no Rahul fan, I can’t imagine him having any problems with being among Dalits. Mayawati is spreading caste hatred and she should be disqualified from holding the CMs post.