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Rahul asks Maya, why are Dalits backbenchers CNN-IBN IN THE LINE OF FIRE: UP CM Mayawati has been targetting both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Lucknow: There seems to be no end to the Mayawati versus the Gandhis war. After targetting Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati has decided to take on her son and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister on Friday ordered the cancellation of Rahul's scheduled interaction with students at the Chandra Shekhar Azaad University in Kanpur. The orders were sent as a written directive to the university Vice Chancellor, just hours before Rahul was to arrive at the auditorium. Rahul, however, kept his date with the students and held an interactive session with them in the cafeteria. He also addressed Mayawati's core constituency - the Dalits - at a public meeting in the area. "Whenever I visit schools I start from the back. Why is it that in Lucknow which has a government headed by a Dalit, all Dalit students are forced to sit at the back benches?" Rahul asked. The Congress General Secretary drove to the university auditorium and after finding it locked, he walked to the cafeteria to interact with the students. The SPG personnel protecting Gandhi had a tough time controlling the over-enthusiastic students. When they pushed some students to check them, Rahul came to their rescue and instructed SPG men not to prevent the students from reaching him. Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee President Rita Bahunguna Joshi alleged that the Chief Minister had exerted pressure on the University Vice Chancellor to get the function cancelled. Almost a fortnight ago the Mayawati government had cancelled the allotment of land for construction of a rail coach factory in Sonia's constituency in Rae Bareli.
