Azam Khan is an Indian lawyer and politician. He is a member of the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Khan is one of the founding members of the ‘Samajwadi Party’ in India.
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Azam Khan was born on 14 August 1948 (age 75 years; as in 2023) in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh. His zodiac sign is Leo. After completing his schooling, he went to Aligarh Muslim University to pursue graduation in law. He graduated from there in 1974 and started working as a lawyer. After this he joined politics in 1980.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 7″
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
Eye colour: dark brown
Family, Caste and Wife
Azam Khan belongs to a Muslim family and follows the religion of Islam. He is the son of Mumtaz Khan. There is not much information about his mother and siblings. He is married to Tazeen Fatima who is a Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh. Khan has two sons. His son, Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan, is also a politician.
Azam Khan and his wife Tazeen Fatima
Azam Khan and his son Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan
livelihood
Azam Khan started his political career in 1980 with Janata Dal (Secular), when he first became the Member of the Legislative Assembly from Rampur constituency. During his second term he moved to Lok Dal. Azam was a member of the Janata Dal in his third term as MLA and then switched to the Janata Party for his fourth term. In 1992, he co-founded the Samajwadi Party and became MLA for the fifth time. He has been a member of the Samajwadi Party since 1993. He has served as MLA 9 times from Rampur constituency. Khan has also been a cabinet minister in the Uttar Pradesh government. Khan held the post of General Secretary of Samajwadi Party and resigned from it on 17 May 2009. During the 15th Lok Sabha elections, he had a falling out with Mulayam Singh Yadav and on 24 May 2009, he was expelled from the party for six years. The party later revoked his expulsion and Khan became a member of the Samajwadi Party again on 4 December 2010. After his victory in the 2014 elections, he again got the ticket from Rampur constituency by Samajwadi Party for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and won. BJP’s Jaya Prada.
Azam Khan with his party members
He resigned his Lok Sabha membership on 22 March 2022 after winning the Rampur seat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. He took oath as MLA on 23 May 2022 after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in an alleged fraud case.
controversies
- On August 28, 2012, Azam used some abusive words for an Indian IAS officer. He shouted, “You are talking nonsense… sit quietly… you are a rude person.”
- Khan is believed to have pressurized the police not to arrest Muslims during the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.
- Khan came into limelight when he deployed a team of 100 policemen and a sniffer dog to find his missing buffaloes.
- On 21 November 2014, Azam demanded that the Taj Mahal be handed over to the Waqf Board. He was later criticized by the media on the grounds that the Taj Mahal belonged to the entire country and not just a particular community.
- In October 2015, Azam had commented that Bharatiya Janata Party MP Mahesh Sharma should be arrested for conspiring to murder a man for eating beef in Dadri’s Bisara village.
- He made headlines by making a controversial comment on the November 2015 Paris attacks. Khan said- “The Paris terrorist attacks were the result of the actions of global superpowers like America and Russia and history will decide who is a terrorist.”
- Referring to the Kargil war, Khan once said: “The peaks of Kargil were won not by Hindus, but by Pakistani soldiers.” His statement was criticized by the Indian media and an FIR was registered against him. He later refused to apologize for his words and accused the Election Commission of India of being biased against him because of his religion.
- Azam had once organized a birthday party for Mulayam Yadav when he was part of the Akhilesh government and when some media persons wanted to know who funded the birthday party, Azam replied- “The funds came from Taliban.” Is. Some have been given by Dawood, some have come from Abu Salem.”
- Khan was also accused of calling Mother India a witch. However, he later clarified that this was in reference to his religious beliefs.
- On 15 April 2019, the Uttar Pradesh Police filed an FIR against Azam for his “underwear jibe” against BJP candidate Jaya Prada, who is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Rampur opposite him. Later the Election Commission barred him from campaigning for 72 hours.
- Over the alleged fake birth certificate of his son, Azam Khan was sent to jail on 26 February 2022. The first birth certificate, which was issued by Rampur Municipality on 28 June 2012, showed Rampur as the birthplace of Abdullah Azam Khan, while the second birth certificate showed Rampur as the birthplace of Abdullah Azam Khan. The certificate, which was issued in January 2015, showed Lucknow as his birthplace. In October 2023, a court in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, convicted Azam, his wife and son in the case and sentenced them to seven years in prison.
- He was released from jail on 19 May 2020 after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in an alleged fraud case.
- On 29 October 2022, he lost his membership in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly after his Rampur seat was declared vacant in a notification issued by the UP Assembly in view of the three-year sentence awarded by the MP/MLA court in a 2019 case . Speech issue. However, he was acquitted by an MP-MLA sessions court in Rampur on 24 May 2023.
- On July 15, 2023, a Rampur court sentenced him to two years in jail. The case pertains to hate speech during the parliamentary election campaign in 2019. The court found him guilty of violating several sections of the Representation of the People Act, namely Section 125 (which deals with promoting enmity between different social groups). for any election), Section 171G (which deals with making false statement in relation to an election), and 505(1)B (which deals with intentionally causing fear or alarm in the public or a specific section of the public). The case against him was registered on 8 April 2019 at Shahzadnagar police station in Rampur. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the then District Magistrate of Rampur Aunjaneya Kumar Singh were targeted in the inflammatory speech.
Salary/Net Worth
As a Lok Sabha member, Azam Khan gets a salary of around Rs 2000. 1 lakh + other allowances per month. His net worth is estimated to be Rs. 4.61 crore (as of 2019)
fact
- After Ganpatrao Deshmukh, Azam Khan is the longest serving MLA, who has been MLA 11 times.
- Before founding Samajwadi Party, Azam had been a member of four other political parties.
- Azam has been MLA from Rampur assembly constituency 9 times.
- His residence is Mohalla-Dhermirabaj Khan, Tank No.-5, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- The “Y-category” security cover provided to Azam Khan by the Uttar Pradesh government was withdrawn in July 2023, as the government considered it unnecessary at that time.
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