Congress legislator from Uklana, Naresh Selwal has written to the Haryana chief secretary seeking action against his area’s sub-divisional officer (SDO) for allegedly misbehaving with him.
The MLA alleged that he had called Uklana SDO Ravinder Kumar several times to apprise him about the power outages in villages in his constituency, but the SDO did not pick up.
On October 22, he visited the SDO office. The MLA alleged that we he entered the office, the officer grew furious on seeing him and his supporters. “He asked us who gave us permission to enter the office. When I confronted him as to why he did not pick up my calls, the officer said there were 90 MLAs in the state and he could respond to each one,” Selwal alleged.
Refuting the allegations, SDO Ravinder Kumar wrote to the executive engineer (XEN) against the MLA Selwal. He alleged that Selwal and his aides entered his office without permission and then threatened to terminate him from service. “The people accompanying the MLA threatened to beat me up if I visited their village,” the SDO further alleged.