<p>In a Taliban-like diktat, Uttar Pradesh Minister Radhey Shyam Singh allegedly threatened to set a local journalist afire for not supporting him during the ongoing Assembly elections in the state.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Kushinagar goes to polls on March 4 in the penultimate phase of the seven-phase Assembly elections ending March 8.<br /><br />The journalist has filed a complaint with the police and has handed over the mobile audio of the alleged threat to the Superintendent of Police, Kushinagar, Raju Babu Singh.<br /><br />Singh said he had received the complaint and the matter would be investigated. In the past too, the minister was accused of abusing and threatening local government officials over phone.<br /><br />Earlier, another Uttar Pradesh Minister, Ram Murti Singh Verma, was booked along with five others in connection with the killing of a journalist Jagendra Singh by allegedly setting him on fire in Shahjahanpur district in June 2015.<br /><br />Jagendra had made a Facebook post against the minister regarding his alleged involvement in illegal sand mining and land grabbing.</p>
<p>In a Taliban-like diktat, Uttar Pradesh Minister Radhey Shyam Singh allegedly threatened to set a local journalist afire for not supporting him during the ongoing Assembly elections in the state.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Kushinagar goes to polls on March 4 in the penultimate phase of the seven-phase Assembly elections ending March 8.<br /><br />The journalist has filed a complaint with the police and has handed over the mobile audio of the alleged threat to the Superintendent of Police, Kushinagar, Raju Babu Singh.<br /><br />Singh said he had received the complaint and the matter would be investigated. In the past too, the minister was accused of abusing and threatening local government officials over phone.<br /><br />Earlier, another Uttar Pradesh Minister, Ram Murti Singh Verma, was booked along with five others in connection with the killing of a journalist Jagendra Singh by allegedly setting him on fire in Shahjahanpur district in June 2015.<br /><br />Jagendra had made a Facebook post against the minister regarding his alleged involvement in illegal sand mining and land grabbing.</p>