LUCKNOW: A piquant situation prevailed on Sunday morning when Samajwadi Party chief and former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav reached the state police headquarters unannounced to protest against the arrest of a party worker and refused to have tea that the police officers offered as courtesy, saying, "What if the tea was laced with poison".
According to the police, when the officers later informed the former CM about the FIR in which the party worker, Manish Jagan Agarwal, was arrested, Akhilesh calmed down and also had tea with the cops before he left.
Around 11 am, the SP chief along with MLAs, MLCs and party workers reached the police headquarters to question the police on the arrest of Manish Jagan Agarwal, a member of the SP’s IT cell. Akhilesh along with some MLAs and MLCs was allowed inside while the party workers – who had gathered in large numbers and were raising slogans against the alleged police excesses – waited outside.
