A Samajwadi Party MLA, who is getting married on Tuesday, has been accused of rape by a teenager in Sultanpur district causing fresh embarrassment to the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh.





The victim’s parents lodged a report with the police last month but the cops allegedly did not take any action, forcing them to move the court. A probe has now been ordered, sources said.



The teenager has alleged that MLA Arun Verma and five others had gang raped her last month. The MLA has refuted the allegations and termed it a ‘conspiracy’ against him.

Another SP leader Kamalesh Upadhyaya was arrested and sent to jail on Friday on allegations of raping a woman after abducting her in Mahoba town, about 250 kilometres from here, reports said.



Party leaders have often caused embarrassment to the state government. SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has warned party leaders in the past that action would be taken against them if they did not mend their ways. But repeated warnings seem to have had no effect.



Two months ago, SP legislator Mahendra Kumar Singh alias Jheen Babu was arrested in a dance bar in Goa.



He was later suspended from the party.Another party legislator from Ambedkar Nagar district Azeemul Haq alias Pehlwan had raided the house of a policeman inside the Kotwali police station and terrorised him after he refused to release a truck against the legislator’s wishes.



Haq had earlier been accused of killing a saffron leader in the district.



Recently, SP MLA Preetam Ram allegedly got a family evicted from a plot in a posh locality in Pilibhit town. The family members were allegedly assaulted when they resisted.

In another incident, senior SP leader and former party MLA Veena Bhardwaj allegedly terrorised a family and threatened them with dire consequences when they tried to take possession of their land in Rampur town.



A few months ago, Minister for Secondary Education Vinod Singh alias Pandit Singh had kidnapped a senior medical officer in Gonda district when he refused to issue appointment letters to candidates recommended by him for the post of doctors under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).