Lucknow, Dec. 19 -- From a member riding a bicycle with a huge cough syrup cutout to another legislator wearing a poster full of questions on the same issue and a third member arriving at the Vidhan Bhavan with an oxygen mask on his face to highlight the problem of air pollution, Samajwadi Party lawmakers protested in unique ways outside the House on the first day of the winter session of the Uttar Pradesh legislature.

Earlier in the day, chief minister Yogi Adityanath had said those accused in the cough syrup nexus had links with the Samajwadi Party.

SP MLC Ashutosh Sinha reached Vidhan Bhavan on a bicycle with a huge cutout of a cough syrup bottle on it. The cutout read, "Jadui syrup. Peene wala mar jata hai, bechne wala daulatmand ho...