Hands-on governance? SP leader Azam Khan reportedly slaps engineer for 'unsatisfactory work'

SP leader Azam Khan, best known for using the local police taskforce to find his missing buffaloes and making inflammatory comments from time to time is in the news again for allegedly slapping an engineer, reported News 18.

The UP leader reportedly slapped an executive engineer of the UP bridge corporation, and angry engineers are now demanding his apology. Khan reportedly slapped him because he was unsatisfied with the work on a flyover in his constituency of Rampur.

Earlier, in the day he mounted a fresh attack on PM Modi calling him badshah. The senior SP leader said that instead of building smart cities, Modi should focus on smart villages. "Modi is working like a 'badshah'. He is building smart cities, while there is a need to create smart villages," Khan told reporters yesterday.

"The Modi government is favouring capitalists and fooling the people of the country by raking up issues related to cow and the Ganga," he alleged, adding "if they (Modi government) respect cow so much then they should ban beef being served in five-star hotels".

The minister had earlier also made controversial remarks against Modi and even alleged that the PM had met underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in Lahore at the residence of Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.