Английская Википедия:Azam Khan (politician)

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Mohammad Azam Khan (born 14 August 1948) is an Indian politician, lawyer and elected representative who has served as the Member of Parliament from Rampur. He is one of the founding members of the Samajwadi Party and was a member of the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He was also the senior most Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh and has been elected member of the legislative assembly ten times from Rampur assembly constituency.

Life and education

Azam Khan was born in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India to Mumtaz Khan. He attended Aligarh Muslim University and attained Bachelor of Laws degree in 1974. Khan married Tazeen Fatma in 1981 and has two sons. Prior to entering politics, he worked as a lawyer. His son Abdullah Azam Khan was an MLA from Suar Assembly Constituency from 2017 to 2019.

Political career

Azam Khan hailed from an ordinary family. He forged unions of bidi and textile workers and rickshaw pullers in order to take on Nawab of Rampur in 1980's. Azam Khan ended the political domination of the Nawab family in Rampur. Since then, Azam Khan has been an MLA for ten terms; all from Rampur assembly constituency. He was also a cabinet minister in the government of Uttar Pradesh. Khan is currently a member of the Samajwadi Party but has been a member of four other political parties between 1980 and 1992. During his first term (8th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh), he was a member of Janata Party (Secular). During his second term (9th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh), he was a member of the Lok Dal. Khan was a member of Janata Dal during his third term (10th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh). In his fourth term (11th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh), Azam Khan was a member of Samajwadi Janata Party. Since 1993 (his fifth term and 12th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh), he has been a member of the Samajwadi Party.

Azam Khan also held a post of General Secretary in Samajwadi Party. However on 17 May 2009 he resigned from the post of the party. During the 15th Loksabha elections, he became involved in a controversy with Jaya Prada, who was contesting from BJP ticket and the surrounding controversies resulted in party crisis. On 24 May 2009, he claimed to have been expelled for six years although the party chief claimed he himself resigned. The Samajwadi Party later revoked his expulsion and he rejoined on 4 December 2010. After his successful win in 2014, Khan has been given ticket from Rampur constituency by the Samajwadi Party for the Lok Sabha elections of 2019.

Legal cases

Khan has been accused in almost 80 legal and criminal cases against him related to land encroachment and criminal intimidation, most of the registered after 2017 in connection with land-grabbing for Muhammad Ali Jauhar University.

Rampur Police has been investigating one of the cases of land acquisition. There are several cases of land grab registered against the NGO ‘Jauhar Trust’ founded by Khan.

In January 2019, a case of forgery was lodged against Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatma and son with respect to the birth certificate of his son Abdullah at a local police station in Uttar Pradesh. However in March 2019, the Allahabad High Court stayed their arrest until the probe was completed by the police. Khan was supported by party leader Akhilesh Yadav who claimed the cases were politically motivated, however in January 2020, the court declared the three, Abdullah and his parents, to be absconders for failing to appear in the court during case hearings. Following this, the Enforcement Directorate will be attaching the properties of Khan from the first week of February onward. On 26 February 2020, Khan was sentenced to imprisonment along with his wife and son for forging a fake birth certificate for his son. The Supreme Court granted interim bail on 19 May 2022 in an alleged cheating case. The interim bail will continue till his regular bail plea is decided, clearing the way for his release. On 27 October 2022, an MP-MLA magistrate court Sentenced three-year jail term to Khan finding him guilty of hate speech in a 2019 case. On 24 May 2023, a UP court acquitted Khan in a hate speech case.

Positions held

#	From	To	Position	Party
01	1980	1985	MLA (1st term) from Rampur	Janata Party (S)
02	1985	1989	MLA (2nd term) from Rampur	Lok Dal
03	1989	1991	MLA (3rd term) from Rampur Minister in the Government of UP	Janata Dal
04	1991	1992	MLA (4th term) from Rampur Minister in the Government of UP	Janata Party
05	1993	1995	MLA (5th term) from Rampur Minister in the Government of UP	SP
06	1996	2002	MP (1st term) in Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh	SP
07	2002	2007	MLA (6th term) from Rampur Leader of the opposition in UP Legislative assembly (2002–03) Cabinet Minister in the Government of UP (2003–07)	SP
08	2007	2012	MLA (7th term) from Rampur	SP
09	2012	2017	MLA (8th term) from Rampur Cabinet Minister in the Government of UP	SP
10	2017	2019	MLA (9th term) from Rampur (resigned in 2019)	SP
11	2019	2022	MP (1st term) in 17th Lok Sabha from Rampur (resigned in 2022)	SP
12	2022	2022	MLA (10th term) from Rampur (Disqualified on 27 October 2022 for The Rampur court had sentenced Mr Khan to three years of imprisonment in the hate speech case of 2019)	SP

See also

• Mohammad Ali Jauhar University
• Rampur
• Government of Uttar Pradesh
• Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

References

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