‘Zeher Dedoge To’: Watch Akhilesh Yadav refuses to drink tea at Lucknow’s police headquarters

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, along with other party leaders, reached Uttar Pradesh Police Headquarters in Lucknow on January 8.

Yadav has reached the police headquarters in ‘protest’ against the arrest of Manish Jagan Agarwal, a worker of the SP media cell's Twitter handle.

Amid the teeth-tethering cold, when police officials offered the Samajwadi Party chief a cup of hot tea, he refused it by saying, ‘you can poison us’.

In the video tweeted by the news agency ANI, Akhilesh Yadav can be seen having a conversation with the police officials present at the headquarters. When the cops offered him tea, he said, “We will not drink tea here. We will bring ours (tea), and will take your cup. We can't drink if you poison us then? We don't trust you (the police). We will get our tea from outside.”

Watch here.

Recently, the Samajwadi Party's official Twitter handle posted a video of Yadav sitting in the hall of police headquarters, complaining that no responsible officer was present to meet him.

Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party workers gathered outside the Police Headquarters and started protesting against the police over the arrest of SP media cell handler Manish Jagan Agarwal.

Samajwadi Party's official Twitter handle shared a video clip showing newspaper cuttings of recent crime incidents that happened in Uttar Pradesh. The caption read, "BJP government in the state, Crime is on the rise!.”

The Lucknow police arrested Manish Jagan Agarwal from Hazratganj early in the morning. Agarwal was arrested after three cases were registered against him at Hazratganj police station, allegedly for making objectionable remarks on Twitter through the party’s social media handle.

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