Lucknow:
A Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA from the Pathardeva constituency in the Deorai district of Uttar Pradesh had a rather unusual welcome at the Deoria railway station. Shakir Ali, a third time MLA and a former SP minister mounted a horse at the railway station platform and was taken for a victory procession in the district by SP supporters.
Shakir Ali defeated the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) heavyweight and the state party president Surya Pratap Shahi in the assembly elections.
As a former minister, Mr Ali had been lobbying in Lucknow for a ministerial berth in the Akhilesh Yadav cabinet.
His party supporters, who had planned the welcome, also thrashed a man who they claimed was a pickpocket and had stolen the minister's wallet at the railway station.
A First Information Report has been registered against the MLA and his supporters for disrupting law and order at the railway station.
Shakir Ali defeated the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) heavyweight and the state party president Surya Pratap Shahi in the assembly elections.
As a former minister, Mr Ali had been lobbying in Lucknow for a ministerial berth in the Akhilesh Yadav cabinet.
His party supporters, who had planned the welcome, also thrashed a man who they claimed was a pickpocket and had stolen the minister's wallet at the railway station.
A First Information Report has been registered against the MLA and his supporters for disrupting law and order at the railway station.
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