SP leader Azam Khan, wife, son shifted to Sitapur jail

Tribune News Service

Lucknow, February 27

A day after surrendering before a Rampur court, Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Azam Khan, his legislator-wife Tazeen Fatma and MLA-son Abdullah Azam were shifted to the Sitapur jail on Thursday. Soon after, SP national president Akhilesh Yadav led a nine-member party delegation to the jail to meet Azam Khan and his family.

Speaking to mediapersons after the meeting, Akhilesh charged the BJP government of targeting the senior SP leader as part of a “political conspiracy.”

“I met Azam Saheb. His wife and SP MLA from Rampur Sadar is not well. His son has injured his hand. I hope the jail administration will provide them all facilities,” he said.

Akhilesh charged the CM Yogi-led BJP government in UP of continuously harassing the family by hatching a political conspiracy of implicating them in all sorts of criminal cases.

“My party doesn’t consider it right to take action against anyone with the motive of vendetta. However, we have full confidence in the judicial system,” he said.

“Today, we have before us the challenge of saving the nation from the party which came to power on the plank of nationalism. Triggering riots is the real face of the much-touted Gujarat model,” pointed out the SP president.

Earlier, speaking to reporters after arriving in Sitapur, Azam Khan said the whole country was aware of the manner in which he and his family were being hounded.

Responding to a question about his being shifted to Sitapur, Azam Khan said it was the decision of the government. The family surrendered before a Rampur court yesterday after anticipatory bail was refused to them in the case of forging the birth certificate of son Abdullah Azam.