used 'abusive language'

filed a police complaint

party protest in Lucknow

BJP

FIR was lodged against Mayawati

Dayashankar

expelled BJP leader

(With inputs from agencies)

My supporters were offended so they commented on Dayashankar’s kin: Mayawati

LUCKNOW: Mayawati on Friday said some BSP workers and supportersagainst the family of Dayashankar , the expelled BJP leader who is on the run, to make them realise "the pain of being abused"."The workers were hurt. So I am told some of them abused the family to make them realise the pain of abuse. They wanted the family to realise that I am also the sister and daughter of someone," Mayawati said.Dayashankar's mother Tetra Devi on Fridayalleging Mayawati had used "abusive language" against the women members of the family. In her complaint she also said that the BSP leaders raised "derogatory" slogans at theon Thursday dragging Dayashankar's 12-year-old daughter into the row.When questioned about the remarks made by BSP leaders, Mayawati said, "his mother, daughter or wife should have condemned what he said but they maintained silence.""When our party workers spoke against them then they realised how it feels to be abused. So that's why some people said, this was to make Dayashankar realise the pain. So that in future he should not be abusive to anyone's daughter or wife," Mayawati said.The BJP slammed Mayawati for defending her party workers and asked her to tender an apology."Siddiqui said Singh's daughter should be presented before the crowd. This is an insult to the women, sisters and daughters. We condemn Mayawati's justification of it. She should not do politics over it and damage the state's social harmony in her greed for power," the BJP said.demanded action against BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui for his abusive language targeting expelled BJP leader Dayashankar Singh's daughter.Siddiqui on his part claimed that the meaning of his statement was interpreted wrongly."It was demanded to present daughter and sister of Singh, just to ask them if they favoured with the derogatory remarks made by the expelled leader against BSP supremo Mayawati," he sought to clarify.Meanwhile, on the basis of Tetra Devi's complaint an, state unit president Ram Achal Rajbhar, national general secretary Naseemuddin and national secretary Mevalal besides unknown workers, police said."We will now demand the arrest of BSP leaders who had crossed all limits in abusing and degrading women members of the family", Dayashankar's family said.had on Wednesday triggered a huge controversy by using derogatory language against Mayawati.Police conducted raids overnight to trace theThe FIR against Mayawati and the BSP leaders has been registered under sections 120B (punishment for criminal conspiracy), 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups), 504 (intentional insult with intent to breach peace), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 509 (word, gesture or act to insult modesty of woman) of the IPC, police said.Earlier in the day, Tetra Devi met the Hazratganj Police and submitted the complaint that she, her daughter, daughter-in-law and grand daughter were abused by BSP men who allegedly raised derogatory slogans during the protest."There was an attempt to instigate violence and riot during the protest by highlighting differences on caste lines", she alleged in the complaint, adding that slogans at the protest amounted to outraging the modesty of a woman.She said after the sloganeering during the protest, Singh's 12-year-old daughter was in shock.The SP said that Singh's brother Dharmendra was detained for questioning, but failed to give any information."All he said was that Singh left for Gorakhpur on July 21 and there was no contact since then," he said."I want the FIR because I'm a woman, my daughter is a woman and my mother-in-law is a woman. She(Mayawati) has used such abusive language," Tetra Devi said, adding, "Their protest was against my husband's statement but they were more abusive in their protest asking lewdly to 'present your daughter and wife'".