Nand Kishore Gurjar, BJP MLA was not allowed to speak in Vidhan Sabha by the speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit
NEW DELHI| On Tuesday BJP MLA showcase was a surprise for their own ruling party in UP. In UP the winter session is underway the MLA of Loni in Ghaziabad Nand Kishore Gurjar alleged oppression at the hands of his own party. Gujar was not allowed to speak his view in Vidhan Sabha.
Gurjar wanted to complain but refused to speak in Vidhan Sabha by the speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit following which Gurjar said it was unfortunate that a member of the ruling party was not being heard in the assembly. This is when SP and Congress MLAs who were staging a walkout over the citizenship amendment act also rallied in his support. Gujar angry over the incident of the Vidha Sabha sat for dharna in BJP office later was supported by more than 100 MLAs including around 60 of BJP alone with remaining joining from the opposition parties of Samajwadi Party, BSP and Congress.
A BJP spokesperson confirmed Gurjar’s protest in the assembly and said senior leaders of the party, including Suresh Khanna, parliamentary affairs minister has been trying to resolve his woes through discussions.
The seed of Gurjar’s disappointment with the state is a show-cause notice presented to him earlier this month. The notice for which his reply was sought in a week was related to his alleged involvement in pressurizing and then slapping a food inspector Ashutosh Singh to make him cancel the license of a meat serving hotel in the town.
In a video, Singh had alleged that Gurjar had first called him to cancel the license of a restaurant that served meat. On his insistence that the restaurant was within the ambit of law, the MLA had asked him to “fabricate” a reason. He then called him over to his office where he threatened him and even slapped him.
Singh reported the MLA said, “Yahan meri sarkar chalti hai…”
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On December 6, the UP police had accordingly arrested two representatives of Gurjar following the official complaint that was filed on November 27, ANI had reported. Interestingly, when the official complaint was filed against him and his representatives, Gurjar had also written a letter to the CM Yogi Adityanath saying that he should also be booked under the sections so that he can stay secure inside the jail as he was convinced that some people wanted to kill him.
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