Samajwadi Party leader and 10-time MLA from Rampur Sadar, Azam Khan, was on Friday disqualified as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly after his conviction by an MP-MLA court in a 2019 hate speech case.
The Vidhan Sabha secretariat said that as per Section 125 of the Representation of the People’s Act 1951 along with Sections 505 (1) and 153 (A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Mr. Khan’s membership in the House ceased to exit after the court sentenced him to three years in jail on Thursday. The court had also imposed a fine of ₹2,000 in the case registered against him during the 2019 Lok Sabha campaign, for allegedly making provocative remarks against U.P. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and then Rampur District Magistrate Aunjaneya Kumar Singh.
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Mr. Khan was granted bail by the court and was given time to appeal his conviction.
During the 2019 general election, Mr. Khan, who is regarded as the SP’s most prominent Muslim face, ran for the Rampur Lok Sabha constituency. Mr. Khan, a founder of the Samajwadi Party, has held the position of minister in each of the administrations led by the late Mulayam Singh and by Akhilesh Yadav. In his more than four decades in politics, he was first elected to the MLA position in 1980 and later served as a member of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
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