New Delhi: Amid the growing Opposition chorus for his resignation over the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Misra Teni courted controversy on Wednesday after a video went viral showing him abusing a journalist.
Teni’s son Ashish is among the 13 accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence that took place in October.
“There is no shame. Media people are thieves who have put an accused person in jail…switch your phone off... What do you want to know?” he can be heard saying in the now-viral video.
The incident took place when the Minister of State for Home was attending an event in Lakhimpur Kheri.
Teni, who was earlier a zila panchayat member from 2005-10, is, however, not new to controversies as he had threatened the farmers during a protest days before the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.
“You better mend your ways, or we will teach you a lesson, it will only take a couple of minutes,” he allegedly said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP had earlier too lost his cool as he threatened a village head during the “Janta Darbar”.
Misra, who was elected as the MLA from Nighasan in Uttar Pradesh earlier in 2012, had prior to the polls then declared one criminal case against him.
Misra, who later in 2014 won the Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh’s Kheri constituency on a BJP ticket, showed one criminal case against him in his election affidavit.
The BJP leader yet again in his 2019 election affidavit declared that an FIR was registered again him but the criminal revision appeal in this regard had been filed at the High Court.