Maneka barred from entering Bareilly; Cong to send team

Security forces on Sunday maintaned strict vigil in the riot-torn city of Bareilly even as state authorities barred a BJP team led by MP Maneka Gandhi from visiting the place.

Lashing out at the UP government,Maneka,who was stopped in Ghaziabad before being allowed to proceed with police escort to Badaun,250 km from Bareilly,accused the Mayawati government of engineering the riots and taking one-sided action to appease a particular community. Another member of the team,Gorakhpur MP Yogi Aditynath,was asked to get down from Gorakhpur-Bareilly Express in Barabanki at around 3 am,officials said.

The Congress general secretary in-charge of UP Digvijay Singh alleged that communal riots in Bareilly were inspired and engineered by the RSS and the BJP in collusion with the BSP regime. The party decided to send a delegation after the curfew is lifted.