Pilibhit youth waits for Pilibhit candidate (Political Prattle)
By IANSFriday, March 20, 2009
NEW DELHI - With mediapersons going berserk trying to get hold of Varun Gandhi, a 22-year-old youth sat quietly waiting to get an audience with him or even his mother and five-time MP Maneka Gandhi at her Delhi residence Thursday.
Guddu, a shop owner, had come from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh to meet the mother-son duo to seek help following a theft in his shop. Pilibhit is the constituency that Maneka Gandhi has carefully nurtured for two decades and has now vacated for Varun to contest as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.
However, thanks to the media circus over Varun after he allegedly made communally inflammatory speeches there, Guddu was not able to meet the two till late afternoon.
He hadn’t eaten anything since morning, but vowed he would not move an inch. ‘I am determined to meet them even if takes hours. If they don’t meet me, I will not vote for them and will tell others too.’
