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SP ally SBSP politician threatens journalist Ashok Shrivastav for condemning incident the place Akhilesh Yadav bodyguard thrashed one other journalist

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On January 30, Ashok Shrivastav, journalist, DD News, demanded motion in opposition to Arun Rajbhar, National General Secretary, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP), after he threatened Shrivastav on social media platform Twitter.
In his tweet, Shrivastav mentioned, “Today Akhilesh Yadav’s security personnel beat up a journalist, I wrote against it, OP Rajbhar Ji’s son Arun Rajbhar Ji threatened to beat me up.” He additional urged Home Minister, UP Police and Election Commission to take motion in opposition to Rajbhar. “Please take action in this matter. This is an attack on the media on journalists,” he added.
आज #Akhilesh_Yadav के सुरक्षाकर्मियों ने एक पत्रकार को पीटा, मैंने इसके विरोध में लिखा तो @oprajbhar जी के बेटे @ArunrajbharSbsp जी ने मुझे पीटने की धमकी दी। @HMOIndia @Uppolice @ECISVEEP कृपया इस मामले में कार्यवाही करें। ये पत्रकारों पर मीडिया पर हमला है। pic.twitter.com/UbIBEKzI7H— Ashok Shrivastav (@AshokShrivasta6) January 30, 2022
Rajbhar, whose get together is an ally of the Samajwadi Party (SP) for the upcoming UP Assembly elections, within the now-deleted put up, had mentioned, “Journalists like you should be thrashed. You should get a reward for the bootlicking.”
Now=deleted tweet by Arun Rajbhar. Source: Archive.org
Shrivastav, in a tweet, had condemned the incident by which Akhilesh Yadav’s bodyguards had thrashed journalist Khalid Chaudhary. He had mentioned, “When SP was in power, journalist Jagendra was burnt alive for writing against a minister. Today, bodyguards of Akhilesh Yadav thrashed journalist Khalid Chaudhary in front of him. New SP or same SP?”
जब सपा सरकार थी तब पत्रकार जगेंद्र को एक मंत्री के खिलाफ लिखने पर ज़िंदा जला दिया था।आज ग़ाज़ियाबाद में #Akhilesh_Yadav के सामने उनके बॉडीगार्ड्स ने पत्रकार खालिद चौधरी की पिटाई की।नई सपा या वही सपा ???— Ashok Shrivastav (@AshokShrivasta6) January 30, 2022
This tweet by Shrivastav irked the politician and SP ally who mentioned responded with a menace saying the journalist must be thrashed.
Akhilesh’s bodyguard thrashed journalist
On January 29, throughout a press meet, journalist Khalid Chaudhary was thrashed by the bodyguards of former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav when he was attempting to ask questions. In the video, the journalist could possibly be heard saying, “Don’t thrash me”, however the bodyguards and SP employees stored pushing him.
जय समाजवाद @rohini_sgh ✊👊 pic.twitter.com/xhGnLDmIf6— Naweed (@Spoof_Junkey) January 29, 2022
This will not be the primary time journalists have been thrashed in Yadav’s presence. In March 2021, a ruckus broke out between a gaggle of journalists and the supporters of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav at a resort in Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh. Yadav was within the metropolis to attend the marriage of an MLA and had performed a press convention on the mentioned resort on Thursday night. During the ruckus, a reporter named Fareed Shamsi (recognized because the one with a darkish blue shirt) took a extreme blow to his nostril from Yadav’s safety guard’s rifle. He was additionally pushed apart by a Samajwadi get together supporter, who stood adjoining to him.