JOIN USSP minister loses temper, thrashes train official
Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan, infamous for his short temper, allegedly thrashed a coach attendant in a speeding train and made him do sit-ups for supplying him ‘dirty’ bedrolls."
While the coach attendant Nirmal Murmu, a resident of West Bengal, suffered cuts and a swollen arm, the minister dismissed the incident as chhoti-motti baat, one of the trivial things that “keep on happening every now and then”.
According to reports, Murmu filed a complaint with the railway police at Amritsar station.
He alleged that the UP minister for urban development Azam Khan, who was travelling in the first AC coach of Howrah-Amritsar Mail from Lucknow to Rampur on Wednesday, summoned him as soon as the train left the station. He rebuked Murmu for providing him ‘dirty’ bedrolls."
“When I said this was what we had, the minister started thrashing me. He also made me do sit-ups,” Murmu complained. Khan got down at Rampur later in the evening.
When asked about the incident, Azam Khan was unrepentant and unperturbed.
“Pata nahin kiski shaan mein gustakhi ho gayee. Aisi chhoti-motti baat hoti rehti hai.” (I don’t know whom I wronged. Such trivial incidents keep on happening.)
Aggressive behaviour
Earlier also, the Samajwadi Party leader has displayed aggressive behaviour.
A few months ago at a public function, he called policemen 'middlemen’.
Once he termed a senior official ill-mannered while rebuking him in public.
The municipal commissioner’s post in Lucknow remained vacant for several days only because no official was ready to work under him.
“Khan can say anything and no harm will come to him,” said a senior official from his ministry.