Punish Him, Or There Will Be Protests Everywhere, Warns Mayawati

"The whole country will not forgive the politician who has abused me", said Dalit leader Mayawati today in Parliament, where several leaders rose in her defence after she was described as "worse than a prostitute" by Dayashankar Singh, a senior BJP leader in Uttar Pradesh, who was quickly demoted. "Outside and even in Parliament, I am called behenji (sister) by most people," said Mayawati, "so the man who used this term for me, he has abused not me, but his sisters." "If action is not taken against him by his party, there will be big protests across the country," she warned.