Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, claimed on Saturday that Azam Khan had become an eyesore for the BJP government, which had been harassing him with fabricated cases.
Following Khan’s conviction in a hate speech case in 2019 and three-year prison sentence, the Rampur MP-MLA court decided to remove him from the Legislative Assembly on Friday.
In a tweet on Friday, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya praised Speaker Satish Mahana’s choice to remove Azama Khan from the Legislative Assembly.
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Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the opposition in the Legislative Assembly, backed the senior party official and claimed, “Azam Khan is on the target of the BJP government. Every day false cases are being registered against him and he is being harassed. Khan seems to be an eyesore for the BJP as he is a staunch rival of the communal forces, and is committed to democracy and socialism.”
“He is a leader, who has struggled for the Constitution and secularism,” the Samajwadi Party chief said in a statement.
BJP leaders “used to get uneasy by his irrefutable logic and strong statements in the Assembly”. Hence a conspiracy was hatched against him, he alleged.
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