Embarrassment for BJP as party MP and MLA get into fight in Uttar Pradesh
Sant Kabir Nagar, Mar 6 (UNI): In a major embarrassment for the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh, the local MP Sharad Tripathi and MLA Rakesh Singh Baghel got into a fight during a meeting on Wednesday.
The BJP MP thrashed the MLA with his shoes and later, the MLA retaliated by slapping the MP.
Both the leaders were attending a meeting at the collectorate auditorium in presence of state health minister Ashutosh Tandon.
The argument broke out when MP Tripathi, who is the son of former UP BJP president Ramapati Ram Tripathi, started threatening MLA Baghel apparently annoyed over his name being missing from the inauguration placard of a road.
Both the leaders openly abused each other. Later, the senior party leaders and police officials present there, ended the chaos at the event.
After the incident, the supporters of the MLA staged dharna against the MP at the collectorate.
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