Summary:
Bareilly, Apr 26 (PTI) Samajwadi Party’s Bhojipura MLA Shazil Islam, booked for allegedly making provocative remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, did not meet a 12-member delegation of his party on Tuesday.
As the SP delegation led by party MLC Sanjay Lathar reached Islam’s residence in Bareilly, it found the MLA"s house locked and had to return without meeting him.
The development comes a couple of days after another SP MLA Ravidas Mehrotra failed to meet senior party leader Azam Khan, lodged in the Sitapur district jail.
The SP leaders failed to meet their party colleagues despite Congress leader Pramod Krishnam and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia Shivpal Yadav having met Khan earlier in jail.
SP MLA Ravidas Mehrotra, claiming to be an emissary of party president Akhilesh Yadav, had visited Sitapur jail on Sunday to see Khan but was turned away with the jail authorities telling him that the inmate was “unwell”.
But some reports suggested that Khan didn’t want to see him.