According to the magazine, Chelsea's beau wanted her to visit his dad at the Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Alabama, but Hillary was having none of it.

A "source" told National Ledger that "with Hillary's political ambitions and them only just getting over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, they can't afford to be associated with a con man doing time—and they insisted Chelsea has to understand that."

The million dollar question is with US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gearing up for her 2008 presidential run, will she be able to keep daughter Chelsea under wraps and in control?

May be not. Some say her dash to Rajasthan with Mark, boyfriend, was a killing-two-birds-with-one-stone "political" strategy. She wanted to get away from mom Hillary and at the same time look good in front of Mark and neutralize him for having said NO to meeting his con Dad in prison. And of course, have fun too. Now isn't that killing more than two birds? So much for being an  offspring of a political parents.

Chelsea and beau were spotted in Rajasthan, India, and reportedly it turned out to be a cat and mouse game between Chelsea and the local media.

Chelsea, who arrived in Rajasthan four days ago on a week-long private visit, avoided media glare to such an extent that not a single picture of hers and her boyfriend Mark have appeared in local newspapers despite the fact that they deployed an army of photographers and reporters in the pursuit.

Preferring to remain incognito, Chelsea arrived in the Lake City of Udaipur, in Rajasthan, where she spent four days at luxury Udaivilas hotel of the Oberois.

During her Udaipur visit, Chelsea did boating, shopping and little sightseeing. The former US president’s daughter also tried some local delicacies and spent some time in hotel gymnasium and bar.

In the hotel she was served traditional Mewari cuisine, which included makkai ki roti, bread made of maize flour.

Since it was a private visit, most of the arrangements were undertaken by the US embassy and involvement of the Rajasthan government was almost minimal. Although the state government officials passed on nuggets of information about Chelsea’s movements, the media was kept out, reported Khaleej Times.

On Monday, the capital city of Jaipur was abuzz with the arrival of Chelsea but the local media could not have a glimpse of her despite reports that she was out for some shopping.

When Chelsea arrived in Jaipur by a domestic airlines, people at the airport recognized her - she straightaway drove to her hotel.

On Wednesday night, the Press waited for hours outside a jewelry shop in Jaipur as she was supposed to do shopping there. But the media personnel had to return empty-handed as Chelsea changed her plans at the eleventh hour. The shop owner confirmed that they were informed about her visit but later told that she had done shopping at the hotel arcade and drove away to the famous tiger reserve Ranthambore National Park.

This was Chelsea’s second visit to Rajasthan. Last time she was there with her parents in 2000 and had visited many villages. She even played Holi with the villagers. At that time, the Clintons were able to see a tiger, which the then US president had named Boomerang. He derived this name after being told the name of the tiger in Hindi was Bamboram.

Rajasthan has become a favorite hangout albeit hideout for celebrities both desis and pardesis, not to mention the large number of tourists who visit the annual Camel festival in the fort city of Bikaner.

Recently, there were reports of pop superstar Britney Spears and her husband and the Titanic star Kate Winslate being in Jodhpur on New Year’s Eve. But again the local media failed to get a glimpse of them.

In 2003, foreign tourist arrivals in the state saw an increase of 47 per cent, while domestic arrivals went up by 51 per cent.

And in the year 2005, foreign tourist arrival figures were put at 1.2 million, an increase of 35 per cent.

Chelsea and friend Mark are understood to have flown back to Delhi from Jaipur on Wednesday Jan 12.