Rampur Assembly Election: Azam Khan, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, or a member of his family is not running for the Rampur assembly seat for the first time since 1977.
The seat will be up for election in a bypoll on December 5 after Azam Khan’s disqualification due to his conviction in a hate speech case caused it to become vacant.
From 1977 until 2022, Khan contested in 12 elections for the assembly, winning ten of them and losing two.
After Azam Khan was elected to the Member of Parliament in 2019, his wife Tazeen Fatma contested and won. Now Asim Raja will try his luck in the by-election.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Congress exerted considerable influence in the region. Khan won five consecutive assembly elections between 1980 and 1993, but he was defeated by Congressman Afroz Ali Khan in 1996. Rajya Sabha received Azam Khan’s dispatch. Between 2002 until 2022, he won five elections in a row.
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Khan has lost his right to hold office in the assembly after receiving a three-year jail term in a hate speech case from a local court.
Allahabad High Court rejects Azam Khan’s plea in hate speech case:
In his speech in 2019, Khan referred to BJP officials as “criminals” and urged the audience to exact “intequam” (revenge) on both Prime Minister Modi and Uttar Padesh CM Yogi Adityanath. He claimed that from 2014 to 2019, when the BJP was in power, Muslims suffered greatly and frequently asked for “revenge” against Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Modi.
Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s plea in the hate speech case rejected by Allahabad High Court. Khan had filed plea seeking a stay on undergoing trial in the 2019 case. Rampur Spl Court had convicted him in the matter in Oct 2022 & awarded him 3-year jail.
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