'You are useless': Newly elected BJP MLA scolds police officer, orders him to arrest man who abused party worker

In an unconfirmed video going viral on social media, Shalabh Mani Tripathi, the newly elected BJP MLA from the Deoria Sadar assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh is threatening a police officer over a phone call. He can be heard telling the police officer to give an 'appropriate treatment' to someone for abusing a BJP worker. Reports suggest that the person on target here was the Samajwadi Party worker Mahesh Yadav, who reportedly abused a BJP worker Roshan Gond a few days ago. The Bhaluani police station had taken cognizance of the matter, while the newly elected MLA called the SHO of the station and asked him to send a picture of Yadav being put and treated accordingly behind the bars. "No-one should be able to abuse the BJP workers and get away with it as long as Shalabh is in Deoria," he can be heard saying in the video.