Senior SP leader asked to pay goonda tax

IT IS strange but true that even senior members of ruling Samajwadi Party are in state of fear. A senior leader is receiving threatening calls from mafias to pay gunda tax of Rs 6 lakh.

IT IS strange but true that even senior members of ruling Samajwadi Party are in state of fear.

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A senior leader is receiving threatening calls from mafias to pay gunda tax of Rs 6 lakh. A senior party leader Vindhayavasini Jaiswal has registered a case in Kotwali police station regarding it and informed the senior office bearers of the party including state minister Jaiprakash Yadav who directed the SSP Raja Srivastav to provide security to Jaiswal and to arrest the mafia issuing threatening. In his application to the police Jaiswal said that notorious criminal Pradeep Singh has threatened on telephone to pay Rs 6 lakh as a gunda tax.

Yadav said the complaint would be raised before the chief minister on September 22 on his arrival.