VARANASI: A feast hosted by BJP's Bhadohi MP Vinod Kumar Bind at his office in Mirzapur's Karsada turned into a battleground as guests who were allegedly served mutton gravy without any meat pieces created a ruckus.
They even slapped the youth serving the mutton, leading to an unruly scene that lasted several minutes, until senior BJP members and locals intervened.
A video clip of people leaving the feast venue with food packets and the injured youth heading towards his motorcycle was widely circulated on social media. According to reports, a youth had joined the "pangat (guests sitting and dining on the ground in a row)". He grew suspicious after he was served too much gravy in his bowl. He dipped a finger into his bowl and couldn't find a single mutton piece. As tempers flew, he asked the person serving the food about it and, on not receiving a satisfactory response, hurled abuse at him and slapped him.
This led to a clash between the youth's companions and the caterer, forcing other guests to leave the feast. Some senior cadres and locals intervened to pacify both parties.
Later, when reporters contacted the MP at a public meeting of UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath in the district's Majhawan area on Friday to enquire about the party being held despite the model code of conduct being in place, Bind refused to comment. Umashankar Bind, who looks after the MP's office, said, "As maximum invitees had consumed food, preparations were being made to wind up the feast after 8.30pm. In the meantime, some youths who had been consuming liquor at a country liquor shop entered the venue, which was restricted to limited invitees."
The same youth caused disturbance and fled the scene, he added. According to him, the whereabouts of those youths could not be ascertained from people present at the office.
Bind, who won Majhwan assembly seat in the 2022 assembly elections on a Nishad Party ticket, made it to the Lok Sabha by winning Bhadohi as a BJP candidate in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, necessitating a bypoll.
BJP has fielded Suchismita Maurya, who had won the 2017 assembly election from there, in the bypoll.
They even slapped the youth serving the mutton, leading to an unruly scene that lasted several minutes, until senior BJP members and locals intervened.
A video clip of people leaving the feast venue with food packets and the injured youth heading towards his motorcycle was widely circulated on social media. According to reports, a youth had joined the "pangat (guests sitting and dining on the ground in a row)". He grew suspicious after he was served too much gravy in his bowl. He dipped a finger into his bowl and couldn't find a single mutton piece. As tempers flew, he asked the person serving the food about it and, on not receiving a satisfactory response, hurled abuse at him and slapped him.
This led to a clash between the youth's companions and the caterer, forcing other guests to leave the feast. Some senior cadres and locals intervened to pacify both parties.
Later, when reporters contacted the MP at a public meeting of UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath in the district's Majhawan area on Friday to enquire about the party being held despite the model code of conduct being in place, Bind refused to comment. Umashankar Bind, who looks after the MP's office, said, "As maximum invitees had consumed food, preparations were being made to wind up the feast after 8.30pm. In the meantime, some youths who had been consuming liquor at a country liquor shop entered the venue, which was restricted to limited invitees."
The same youth caused disturbance and fled the scene, he added. According to him, the whereabouts of those youths could not be ascertained from people present at the office.
Bind, who won Majhwan assembly seat in the 2022 assembly elections on a Nishad Party ticket, made it to the Lok Sabha by winning Bhadohi as a BJP candidate in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, necessitating a bypoll.
BJP has fielded Suchismita Maurya, who had won the 2017 assembly election from there, in the bypoll.
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