Making sure to not exclude the dalit Muslims and dalit Christians from the reservation gravy train, the BSP leader said that she had already written to the Center to include them in the Scheduled Caste list though the UPA government has yet to make a move in that direction.
Mayawati, in a preemptive declaration, said that in the event she gets assassinated, people should never forgive the Congress Party that has denied her SPG security to her despite repeated request by her to the Home Ministry.
Earlier Mayawati's special aircraft landed at Patna Airport from where she boarded a pre-arranged helicopter landing at the specially-built helipad at Gandhi Maidan at around 1:15 pm. The distance between the helipad to the main dais was covered in a bullet-proof vehicle followed by several security vehicles.
Security at Gandhi Maidan was extremely tight where heavily-armed commandos monitored the situation from all angles to ensure no untoward incident occurred during her entire stay in Patna.
The UP CM was greeted by party leaders including the party state chief Gandhi Azaad who presented her a bronze elephant.
Party leaders also presented Mayawati a gold elephant, a miniature model of the Ashok Pillar, a Buddha statue, and an idol of Kunwar Singh.
Source: http://www.patnadaily.com/news2008/feb/020608/mayawati_in_patna.html
