UP: BJP MLA asks villager to swear he had voted for celebration to get lights at house

A video has gone viral wherein an Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA is purportedly proven asking a villager to allegedly swear that the person had voted for the saffron celebration, when the legislator was requested to put in lights in his house.
In the video that went viral on Monday, Veer Vikram Singh (Prince), the MLA from Katra Assembly constituency in Shahjahanpur, was addressing a tree plantation programme held just lately and itemizing the event works executed by him when a villager had requested him to put in lights at his house.
To this, the legislator mentioned, “You swear either pointing towards river Ganga or by your son and say that you have voted for us (BJP), and I will get the lights installed at your home. You expect something from a person, whom you have given something.”
As the villager mentioned that he was simply making a request, the BJP MLA replied, “Request that person, whom you had given something. Had you given (me your vote), you would have the right to stand on my chest. Don’t try to fool me. My father has been a four-time MLA. I am an MLA.”
“Do you think that I don’t know how many votes I have got at each booth. You could have complained, if you had voted for me, and I had not provided you lights,” the legislator additional mentioned within the video.
Speaking to PTI in a while the problem, Singh mentioned, “The villager was exerting pressure on me to install lights in his home. The cost of such lights is Rs 10 lakh. In this situation, the lights can be installed at public places under a government scheme.”
Reacting to the assertion, former SP MLA Rajesh Yadav mentioned, “After winning the elections, an MLA is a representative for everybody. Who has voted for him, and who has not voted does not count. Indulging in vote politics, and asking people to swear by such things does not suit an MLA.”