Sify Home >> News & Info >> News >> imagegallery

Varun Gandhi jailed, BJP to retain him in campaign

View as Slide Show | View Thumbnails

Share | Rate

Pilibhit/Lucknow: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Varun Gandhi was sent to jail in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh Saturday for his reported hate speeches, but the party maintained he would be deployed in the election campaign according to his capacities.

"He (Varun) is just a party worker and our candidate from Pilibhit and he will be utilised according to his capabilities," senior party leader Kalraj Mishra, who accompanied Gandhi in Pilibhit, said in state capital Lucknow in the evening.

Varun Gandhi arrested, sent to jail

Mishra was replying to questions if his party saw Gandhi as a new 'Hindutva poster-boy' and star campaigner.

Special: Lok Sabha polls 2009

Image: BJP candidate Varun Gandhi talking to the media as he comes out of a local court after he was arrested by the police in Pilibhit on Saturday. Varun has been sent to judicial custody till Monday.

Text: IANS
Images: (Copyright PTI. Unauthorised reproduction prohibited.)

View as Slide Show | View Thumbnails

Share | Rate

More Galleries >>