Azam Khan is an Indian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Khan is one of the founding members of the Indian Samajwadi Party.
Wiki/Biography
Azam Khan was born on August 14, 1948 in Rampur District, Uttar Pradesh (age 75 in 2023). His zodiac sign is Leo. After completing his studies, he went to Aligarh Muslim University to pursue a degree in law. In 1974, he graduated from there and began practicing law. Thereafter, he joined politics in 1980.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5’7”
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
Eye color: dark brown
family, caste and wife
Azam Khan was born in a Muslim family and believes in Islam. He was the son of Mumtaz Khan. Little is known about his mother and siblings. He is married to Tazeen Fatima, a member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh. Khan has two sons. His son Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan is also a politician.
Azam Khan and his wife Tazin Fatima
Azam Khan and his son Muhammad Abdullah Azam Khan
Profession
Azam Khan started his political career with the Janta Dal (Secular) in 1980, when he first became a member of the Legislative Assembly from Rampur constituency. During his second term he moved to Lochdal. Azam was a member of the PPP during his third term as MLA before switching to the PPP during his fourth term. In 1992, he co-founded the Samajwadi Party and became an MLA for the fifth time. He has been a member of the Samajwadi Party since 1993. He has served as MLA from Rampur constituency for nine terms. Khan also served as a cabinet minister in the Uttar Pradesh government. Khan served as general secretary of the Samajwadi Party and resigned on May 17, 2009. He had a dispute with Mulayam Singh Yadav during the 15th Lok Sabha elections and was expelled from the party on May 24, 2009 for six years. Later, the party revoked his expulsion and Khan became a member of the Samajwadi Party again on December 4, 2010. After winning the 2014 elections, he once again received a ticket from the Samajwadi Party to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Rampur constituency, defeating his rival Jaya Prada of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Azam Khan and his party members
On March 22, 2022, he quit the Lok Sabha membership after winning the Rampur seat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. He was sworn in as a judicial assistant on May 23, 2022, after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in an alleged cheating case.
dispute
- On August 28, 2012, Azam used some abusive words against an Indian IAS officer. He shouted: “Bakwas karte ho…chup baithiye…badtameez kaheen ke” (Stop talking nonsense…sit quietly…you have no manners).
- Khan is believed to have pressured police not to arrest Muslims during the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.
- Khan made headlines when he deployed 100 police officers and a sniffer dog to search for the missing buffalo.
- On November 21, 2014, Azam demanded that the Taj Mahal be handed over to the Waqf Committee. He was later criticized in the media on the grounds that the Taj Mahal belonged to the entire country and not just to a particular community.
- In October 2015, Azam commented that BJP MP Mahesh Sharma should be arrested for conspiring to murder a beef-eating man in Besaradadri village.
- He came into the spotlight for his controversial comments about the November 2015 attacks in Paris. “The terrorist attacks in Paris were the result of the actions of global superpowers such as the United States and Russia, and history will determine who are the terrorists,” Khan said.
- Talking about the Kargil War, Khan once said: “It was not the Hindus who conquered the Kargil mountains, but the Pakistani soldiers.” His remarks were criticized by the Indian media and an FIR was filed against him. He later refused to apologize for his remarks and accused India’s Election Commission of being biased against him because of his religious beliefs.
- Azam had organized a birthday party for Mulayam Yadav during the Akhilish government. When some media persons asked who funded the birthday party, Azam replied: “Funding the Taliban” se aaya hai. “Kuch Dawood ne diya hai, kuch Abu Salem se aaya hai. “
- Khan was also accused of calling Bharatmata a “dayan” (witch). However, he later clarified that this was due to his religious beliefs.
- On April 15, 2019, the Uttar Pradesh police booked Azam for making “underwear taunts” towards the BJP candidate Jaya Prada, who was with him Fighting opposite Rampur Lok Sabha polls. Later, the electoral commission banned him from campaigning for 72 hours.
- Azam Khan was sent to jail on February 26, 2022, in a document allegedly forged on his son’s birth certificate. The first birth certificate was issued by Rampur Nagar Palika on June 28, 2012, showing Rampur as the birthplace of Abdullah Azam Khan, while The second birth certificate shows Rampur as the birthplace of Abdullah Azam Khan. A certificate issued in January 2015 shows 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. On May 24, 2024, he was granted bail after the Allahabad High Court suspended his seven-year sentence in the birth certificate forgery case.
- On May 19, 202, the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in a fraud case and he was released from prison.
- On October 29, 2022, he lost his membership in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly after his Rampur seat was declared vacant in a notification issued by the Uttar Pradesh Assembly after he was arrested by the MP/MLA court in a hate incident in 2019 Sentenced to three years in prison. Speech case. However, on May 24, 2023, the Rampur MP-MLA court acquitted him.
- On July 15, 2023, he was sentenced to two years in prison by a Rampur court. The case relates to hate speech that occurred during the 2019 parliamentary elections. The court found him guilty of violating several provisions of the Representation of the People Act, namely Section 125 (relating to inciting hostility between different social groups). Section 171 G (relating to election-related false statements) and Section 505 (1) B (relating to intentional fear or alarm on the public or a particular group of the public). A case was registered against him on April 8, 2019, at the Shahjad Nagar police station in Rampur. The inflammatory remarks were made against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the then Rampur district magistrate Aunjaneya Kumar Singh.
salary/net worth
As a member of the Lok Sabha, Azam Khan’s salary is approximately Rs. 100,000 per month + other allowances. His net worth is estimated to be Rs. Rs 461 crore (as of 2019)
fact
- Azam Khan is the longest-serving MLA, after Ganpatrao Deshmukh who served as MLA 11 times.
- Azam was a member of four other political parties before forming the Samajwadi Party.
- Azam served as MLA from Rampur Assembly constituency for nine terms.
- His residence is at Tanki No.-5, Mohalla-Dheramirabaj Khan, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- The ‘Y Category’ security provided to Azam Khan by the Uttar Pradesh government was withdrawn in July 2023 as the government deemed it unnecessary at the time.
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