BJP state president Keshav Prasad Maurya has issued directives asking party workers not to weigh him with coins or give him precious gifts during his visit to districts.
"At some places over enthusiastic party workers have weighed me with coins or have given me gifts. I appeal to the workers not to do the same," Keshav Maurya said in a statement issued here on Wednesday.
The directives were issued after a Samajwadi Party leader in Kanpur lodged a complaint against BJP state president after he was weighed with coins there.
The political leaders even called this an autocratic act of state president. "I do not want workers to repeat this act anywhere in the state during my visit. That money or gifts should be given to poor and needy," he said.
It is second time in last one week Keshav Maurya had issued directives asking party workers not to go over board. Earlier he had asked them not to put up posters or hoardings depicting him as God.