Bihar BJP Leaders Not Buying Dikshit's Apology
Patna: May 11, 2007
 In the wake of the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's unflattering statements against the people of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Patna on Friday marched to the Governor's house demanding her removal for insulting millions of Biharis and UP'ites.
A delegate of BJP leaders led by party state president Radha Mohan Singh, chanting anti-Dikshit slogans, marched to see Governor R. S. Gavai to hand him a memo demanding sacking of Dikshit but were stopped from proceeding further at R. Block.
The rally then turned into a public meeting where party leaders and activists criticized the Delhi CM for insulting and hurting millions of Biharis during a public event in Delhi last Wednesday.
Though Dikshit, in a damage control move following a meeting with the External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and widespread protest in the Parliament, tendered her apology saying she was sorry for hurting the sentiments of people from Bihar and UP, blamed the media for 'twisting' her remarks.
Dikshit, while laying the foundation stones of three new flyovers in Delhi on Wednesday, had said that because of people migrating from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, Delhi's infrastructure was overburdened.
"These people come to Delhi from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh but don't ever go back causing burden on Delhi's infrastructure," she told the Delhi crowd.
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