‘Conviction, jail time period, disqualification’: End of political highway for Azam Khan?

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: The political profession of Mohammad Azam Khan, one of many senior leaders of the Samajwadi Party, appears to be in for a turbulent time following his conviction and three-year jail time period in a hate speech case relationship again to 2019.

The conviction adopted by the disqualification of the SP chief from the state meeting will be the finish of the highway for him in electoral politics. If Azam Khan fails to get a reprieve from greater courts, he wouldn’t be allowed to contest any election for the subsequent six years from the day of his launch from jail after serving the time period. It would lead Khan to be away from electoral politics for 9 years in all.

One of the pillars of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s assume tank with a decent grip on Muslim votes, particularly of western UP, Azam Khan’s affect got here in useful for the SP-Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance within the 2022 Assembly polls because it bagged round 40 seats from the western area of the state.

Of the 5 meeting seats of the Rampur parliamentary section, three have been bagged by the SP-RLD alliance. Azam Khan from Rampur and his son Abdullah Azam from Suar Tanda received their respective seats.

Similarly, in Moradabad, which has over 50 per cent Muslim voters, of the six seats, 5 went to SP and just one was bagged by the BJP. In Sambhal, one other Muslim-dominated constituency, of the 4 meeting segments, three went to SP and one to the BJP.

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Azam Khan’s conviction and his disqualification from the Assembly got here as a serious jolt for his social gathering simply earlier than the upcoming city native physique polls due this year-end and 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

“Azam Khan’s growing age and health condition and criminal cases lodged in abundance against him are set to multiply his problems making his return to active politics difficult,” says Prof SK Dwivedi, former head, of the political science division of Lucknow University.

The strongman of Rampur, on the mistaken facet of age, has been scuffling with various medical situations whereas grappling with hearings within the prison instances lodged in opposition to him in several courts.

However, as per SP sources, Azam Khan is within the means of difficult his conviction order delivered by Rampur MP/MLA courtroom in Rampur periods Court quickly. He is consulting the authorized luminaries and is more likely to transfer the Sessions Court quickly because the MP/MLA courtroom whereas granting him interim bail had allowed him to problem his conviction inside per week’s time within the greater courtroom.

LUCKNOW: The political profession of Mohammad Azam Khan, one of many senior leaders of the Samajwadi Party, appears to be in for a turbulent time following his conviction and three-year jail time period in a hate speech case relationship again to 2019.

The conviction adopted by the disqualification of the SP chief from the state meeting will be the finish of the highway for him in electoral politics. If Azam Khan fails to get a reprieve from greater courts, he wouldn’t be allowed to contest any election for the subsequent six years from the day of his launch from jail after serving the time period. It would lead Khan to be away from electoral politics for 9 years in all.

One of the pillars of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s assume tank with a decent grip on Muslim votes, particularly of western UP, Azam Khan’s affect got here in useful for the SP-Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance within the 2022 Assembly polls because it bagged round 40 seats from the western area of the state.

Of the 5 meeting seats of the Rampur parliamentary section, three have been bagged by the SP-RLD alliance. Azam Khan from Rampur and his son Abdullah Azam from Suar Tanda received their respective seats.

Similarly, in Moradabad, which has over 50 per cent Muslim voters, of the six seats, 5 went to SP and just one was bagged by the BJP. In Sambhal, one other Muslim-dominated constituency, of the 4 meeting segments, three went to SP and one to the BJP.

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Azam Khan’s conviction and his disqualification from the Assembly got here as a serious jolt for his social gathering simply earlier than the upcoming city native physique polls due this year-end and 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

“Azam Khan’s growing age and health condition and criminal cases lodged in abundance against him are set to multiply his problems making his return to active politics difficult,” says Prof SK Dwivedi, former head, of the political science division of Lucknow University.

The strongman of Rampur, on the mistaken facet of age, has been scuffling with various medical situations whereas grappling with hearings within the prison instances lodged in opposition to him in several courts.

However, as per SP sources, Azam Khan is within the means of difficult his conviction order delivered by Rampur MP/MLA courtroom in Rampur periods Court quickly. He is consulting the authorized luminaries and is more likely to transfer the Sessions Court quickly because the MP/MLA courtroom whereas granting him interim bail had allowed him to problem his conviction inside per week’s time within the greater courtroom.