Kanpur: Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki on Friday was reported to have insulted and threatened two traffic police officials during a rally of party leader Abu Azmi here.
During the arguments with the traffic policemen, Solanki demanded action against the officers, saying they clicked pictures of the SP workers to penalise them for traffic violations.
The incident was clicked by the camera and displayed the SP MLA continuously threatening them.
Samajwadi Party workers had gathered here to give a grand welcome to Abu Azmi to the city.
While his convoy was running from Gangapur to Ramadevi, the SP workers allegedly violated several traffic rules.
The traffic police officials were clicking pictures of the party workers flouting the traffic rules.
Raising objections at the clicking of the photos the Samajwadi workers began arguing with the cops.
This is when Solanki came to the picture and asked his partymen to check the phones of the traffic policemen for the pictures.
The cops didn't allow them to do so. Solanki then asked the SP workers to click the photos of the two policemen and threatened them with dire consequences.
The commotion stretched for 15 minutes during which Solanki, the MLA from the city's Sisamau constituency.
He also dialled the commissioner and mentioned the names of traffic officials. He alleged that the cops were harassing his party workers.
Solanki told the police commissioner that he will send the pictures of both the policemen for initiating action against them.
Abu Azmi had taken out a rally in Kanpur ahead of the next year's UP assembly polls. Asserting ouster of the BJP he cleared that his party will win more than 350 seats in the 403-member State Assembly.
