Lucknow: In a shocking incident, Union minister Anupriya Patel became a victim of eve-teasing in Uttar Pradesh.
According to reports, Ms Patel, minister of state for health and family welfare and a member of the Apna Dal party, was in Mirzapur district which is also her parliamentary constituency on Sunday, to participate in various public programmes. She was returning to Varanasi in the night when three youths in a car started hurling indecent comments at her and chased the minister’s vehicle.
Initially, the minister ignored them but the youths, who were in a car without a number plate, continued to misbehave the minister’s security personnel tried to chase them. The youths disappeared only to reappear again a few minutes later. But when the young men who were in a car without a number plate did not mend their ways, the minister's security personnel in the cavalcade began chasing them. They disappeared for some time, only to reappear later and continue hurling “dirty comments”.
Ms Patel realised that the situation was going out of control and informed the Varanasi police and other senior officials.
The three men were soon nabbed as the police set up roadblocks on the route.
