NEW DELHI, DEC 22: You would expect him to be chastened at the end of a day when he threatened to assault Union Minister Nitish Kumar forcing the adjournment of the Lok Sabha. But regret is the last thing on Samajwadi Party Devendra Singh Yadav's mind: ``Yes, I have just been warned by the Lok Sabha Speaker but if someone dares to insult my leader, I will not hesitate in beating him up inside the House.''In his early '50s, Yadav is a first-time MP though he has served as an MLA in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly from Patiali in Etah. He owns over 400 bighas of agricultural land, rolling mills, cold storage, a bolt factory, a finance company besides liquor contracts in about a dozen districts and towns in UP including Pilibhit, Bareilly, Farrukhabad and Fatehpur.``I respect Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav more than my father. Koi unke saath badtamiji karega to hum uthake de marenge (I will beat up the person who tries to humiliate him),'' he told The Indian Express this evening.He claims thatwhatever he did in the Lok Sabha today was to safeguard his ``self-respect.'' That's why he doesn't care, he says, even if it means sacrificing his Lok Sabha membership. He says that he was ``agitated'' by Nitish Kumar's repeated ``derogatory references'' to Mulayam. ``I could not tolerate his loose talk and went over to the Treasury benches to hit him,'' he says.
