Uma Bharti arrested for protesting against Sonia, Rahul visit to Muzaffarnagar

Muzaffarnagar: Police have arrested Bhartiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti on Tuesday when she was trying to broke into the house of defunct journalist Rajesh Verma, a victim of Muzaffarnagar riots. Immediately after being nabbed, Bharti asked that if she is not allowed here, then why Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were allowed to visit the riot-hit area.

The police had asked her to step behind and not to move to the journalist's house, which she didn't look to follow.

Being furious with the incident, Uma Bharti immediately asked the policeman that if the politicians are not allowed into the riot-hit area, when why Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were allowed to visit the place on Monday.

In reply, Uma Bharti received a strange answer which read, Gandhis were allowed here because they are the convey of PM Manmohan Singh.

Uma Bharti then staged a sit-in after which police arrested her. But as police tried to take her away, hundreds of BJP workers reached the spot and raised anti-government slogans.

Uma Bharti accused the Uttar Pradesh government of failing to ensure safety to the people of the state.

In a related development, BJP leader Vinay Katiyar said all political leaders should be allowed to go to Muzaffarnagar, where communal clashes Sep 7-9 claimed more than 40 lives and left scores injured.

Thousands have also fled their rural homes after coming under attack from marauding mobs.

"Some people are being allowed (into Muzaffarnagar) and other public representatives are being kept away. This is unfair," Katiyar told the sources.

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