New Delhi: As the election dates are approaching, the political temperature is rising in Uttar Pradesh day by day. The main two opponents namely BJP and SP are often seen trying to cut each other’s part. And this has clearly not left out the election nominations.
The Samajwadi Party has fielded two of its candidates from the same seat alleging that BJP often gets their candidates arrested in petty false cases. The same is the case with senior leader Azam Khan’s son Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan who was recently released from jail on bail.
The SP has fielded Abdullah Azam and his mother Tazeen Fatma from the Suar constituency in Rampur district according to their affidavits on the Election Commission website.
Azam Khan, who is still in jail, filed his nomination for the Rampur district from within the jail on Thursday, reported news agency PTI. Khan was a cabinet minister in the Akhilesh Yadav-led government.
Providing a reason for fielding two candidates from the same constituency, SP spokesperson Abbas Haider said, “We have seen the BJP government framing a former minister, who had developed Rampur, in frivolous cases of goat and cycle theft. They can even manipulate the nomination of our candidates and not let them contest the polls because of political vendetta.”
He added that SP is determined to “root out” BJP’s “jungle raj” from Uttar Pradesh. Suar will go to the polls in the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections on February 14.
Azam Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatma, and son Abdullah Azam had surrendered to the police in multiple forgery cases in February 2020. While Fatma got bail in December 2020, Abdullah Khan was released on January 16, 2022, on bail. However, an eight-time MLA and Lok Sabha MP Azam Khan remains imprisoned till now.
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