A police station in Uttar Pradesh played host to a brazen beatdown of a BJP leader's husband on Wednesday, with policemen struggling to overpower his attackers, including an MLA of the opposition Samajwadi Party. Samajwadi Party legislator Rakesh Pratap Singh assaulted Deepak Singh, the husband of Rashmi Singh, a BJP municipal election candidate, inside the Gauriganj Kotwali police station in Amethi district, a video recorded by a witness showed.