UP: Baba ka bulldozer at work after SP MLA’s ‘threat’ to CM Yogi Adityanath

Officials demolish the petrol pump, in Bareily district on Thursday. Pic/PTI

A petrol pump that had allegedly been built illegally by Samajwadi Party MLA Shazil Islam Ansari was bulldozed on Thursday, days after the legislator was booked over a "provocative remark" against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The demolition of the fuel station at Parsakheda on the Bareilly-Delhi National Highway was carried out by the Bareilly Development Authority, using a bulldozer, an official said. Less than a week back, an FIR was lodged at Bareilly's Baradari police station against the opposition MLA over remarks made by him against CM Adityanath.

Addressing party workers in his constituency last Friday, Ansari had said his party's strength in the UP House had increased after the recent elections and if Adityanath makes any "noise" now the SP guns will "not emit smoke, but fire bullets". As a controversy erupted, the MLA seemed to suggest that the remark was being taken too literally, and a news channel had "edited" it.

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