With both Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav trying to do everything to put the leaders of the Party in discipline, yet another Samajwadi Party leader who was also a former Bahujan Samaj Party MlA from Bijnor, has allegedly threatened an executive engineer of UP Power Corporation limited (UPPCl) with dire consequences in Muzaffarnagar.
He asked the officer to withdraw a recovery notice worth several crore against his factory or be ready to face the music.Confirming about the above allegations on SP leader, Superintendent of Police (Crime) in Muzaffanagar, Kalpana Saxena claimed that she received an application from the executive engineer of UPPCl, V N Singh who had alleged that Shahnawaz Rana, a senior SP leader and a former MlA, has threatened him to withdraw the Recovery Certificates served against the factory owned by the said leader.
She claimed that they were probing the matter before initiating any further action.Reports said Shahnawaz, who is now a party member of the ruling Samajwadi Party is the owner of a steel factory that has defaulted on payment of its electricity bills worth Rs 3.67 crore. The UPPCl now issue Recovery Certificates against his factory asking that in case of failure, legal proceedings will be made in the matter. Meanwhile, Shahnawaz, who is the nephew of sitting MlA from Muzaffarnagar, Noor Salim Rana, has reportedly denied the allegations. He claimed that the move was made by his opponents just to defame him and take political mileage out of it..