MLA Gets Notice Over Beating Train passenger, CCTV reveals

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A video of a resident of Bhopal, Rajprakash, being beaten up on a train coming from Delhi to Rani Kamlapati Railway Station in Bhopal on June 19, went viral.

BJP legislator from Babina (UP), Rajeev Singh, was blamed for the incident. But the victim, Rajprakash, remained behind the scene after the incident. People say he did not come to the public because of the MLA’s fear.

After the incident came to light, UP’s BJP unit issued a notice to the legislator. The notice was issued under the signature of the party’s UP unit general secretary Govind Narayan Shukla.

A response has been sought from the MLA within seven days. Else, the party will take disciplinary action against him.

In the notice, it has been said the incident in which the legislator was involved has an impact on the party’s image. The party came to know of the incident through social media, the notice said.

It is clear in the CCTV footage that some people came from Jhansi and beat up Rajprakash, and the legislator was watching the incident.

The dispute between the legislator and Rajprakash was over changing a seat. Rajprakash told the MLA that he would not change the seat, which led to an altercation between them.

A former minister of the state, Ramniwas Rawat, was a witness to the incident.  Rawat was in the same coach in which the incident took place.

The CCTV footage shows Rawat was watching the incident in which the passenger was being beaten up. Rawat posted a tweet afterwards. But when he came to know that the BJP legislator was behind the incident, he deleted the tweet.

In the tweet, he wrote some people from outside beat up a passenger on the Vande Bharat Express. Some of them were policemen, Rawat wrote. "If such incidents take place on Vande Bharat Express, what will happen in other trains?" he wrote.