A lawmaker in India’s northeastern state of Assam proclaimed himself a "king" and insisted on hunting wildlife for sport, two days after he and another legislator vandalized property inside the famed Kaziranga National Park and threatened to kill a park ranger.

"I am the king ... a king does not require permission to enter any part of his territory," Jiten Gogoi, a legislator representing the Bokakhat assembly constituency, under whose jurisdiction the Kaziranga National Park falls, told reporters. "I think I will hunt deer inside the park as hunting explicitly for sport had been a noble and especially a royal prerogative since ancient times."

Park officials said Gogoi, a former militant of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), accompanied by another legislator, Kushal Duori, entered the sanctuary last week and forcibly took a boat to go fishing in a river that flows through Kaziranga.

"After being informed that our local legislator was fishing and cooking food inside the park, four of us (all rangers) went to find out what was going on," said ranger Dharanidhar Boro. "When we told him that fishing and cooking inside the park were illegal, Gogoi brandished an AK 47 rifle and threatened to shoot."

Boro disarmed the legislator and begged the two lawmakers to leave the park immediately.

"I told him that he was an elected legislator and if he disobeys park rules and regulations, then it would be difficult to prevent others from doing such acts," said Boro, who earned the sobriquet ‘rhino-man’ of Kaziranga for his 30 years of service in protecting wildlife.

The two legislators, accompanied by a few accomplices, then went about vandalizing park property, damaging a security shed and hoardings before leaving.

Police registered several cases against the two lawmakers, including illegal entry inside the prohibited area with arms. The two legislators, however, have not been arrested.

"Did anyone see me vandalizing park property? If I say that Boro killed a rhino and sold the horn to poachers, would you believe it?" Gogoi asked, denying the charges.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has ordered a probe.

The 430 sq km park, 220 km east of Assam’s main city Guwahati, is home to the single largest population of the one-horned rhinoceros.