a helicopter carrying Mayawati in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, April 12

People watch a helicopter carrying Mayawati, chief of the caste-based Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and a prime ministerial aspirant, land near the venue of an election campaign rally in Varanasi, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, April 12, 2009.

REUTERS/Pawan Kumar