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‘Conviction, prison time period, disqualification’: Finish of political highway for Azam Khan?

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

The conviction adopted by way of the disqualification of the SP chief from the state meeting is also the tip of the street for him in electoral politics. If Azam Khan fails to get a reprieve from upper courts, he would now not be allowed to contest any election for the following six years from the day of his free up from prison after serving the time period. It will lead Khan to be clear of electoral politics for 9 years in all.

Probably the most 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 to hand for the SP-Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance within the 2022 Meeting polls because it bagged round 40 seats from the western area of the state.

Of the 5 meeting seats of the Rampur parliamentary section, 3 have been bagged by way of the SP-RLD alliance. Azam Khan from Rampur and his son Abdullah Azam from Suar Tanda received their respective seats.

In a similar way, in Moradabad, which has over 50 according to cent Muslim citizens, of the six seats, 5 went to SP and just one used to be bagged by way of the BJP. In Sambhal, every other Muslim-dominated constituency, of the 4 meeting segments, 3 went to SP and one to the BJP.

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Azam Khan’s conviction and his disqualification from the Meeting got here as a big jolt for his birthday celebration simply ahead of the approaching city native frame polls due this year-end and 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

“Azam Khan’s rising age and well being situation and legal circumstances lodged in abundance in opposition to him are set to multiply his issues making his go back to energetic politics tricky,” says Prof SK Dwivedi, former head, of the political science division of Lucknow College.

The strongman of Rampur, at the flawed facet of age, has been suffering with various scientific prerequisites whilst grappling with hearings within the legal circumstances lodged in opposition to him in numerous courts.

On the other hand, as according to SP resources, Azam Khan is within the strategy of difficult his conviction order delivered by way of Rampur MP/MLA courtroom in Rampur classes Courtroom quickly. He’s consulting the prison luminaries and is prone to transfer the Periods Courtroom quickly because the MP/MLA courtroom whilst granting him intervening time bail had allowed him to problem his conviction inside every week’s time within the upper courtroom.

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

The conviction adopted by way of the disqualification of the SP chief from the state meeting is also the tip of the street for him in electoral politics. If Azam Khan fails to get a reprieve from upper courts, he would now not be allowed to contest any election for the following six years from the day of his free up from prison after serving the time period. It will lead Khan to be clear of electoral politics for 9 years in all.

Probably the most 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 to hand for the SP-Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance within the 2022 Meeting polls because it bagged round 40 seats from the western area of the state.

Of the 5 meeting seats of the Rampur parliamentary section, 3 have been bagged by way of the SP-RLD alliance. Azam Khan from Rampur and his son Abdullah Azam from Suar Tanda received their respective seats.

In a similar way, in Moradabad, which has over 50 according to cent Muslim citizens, of the six seats, 5 went to SP and just one used to be bagged by way of the BJP. In Sambhal, every other Muslim-dominated constituency, of the 4 meeting segments, 3 went to SP and one to the BJP.

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Azam Khan’s conviction and his disqualification from the Meeting got here as a big jolt for his birthday celebration simply ahead of the approaching city native frame polls due this year-end and 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

“Azam Khan’s rising age and well being situation and legal circumstances lodged in abundance in opposition to him are set to multiply his issues making his go back to energetic politics tricky,” says Prof SK Dwivedi, former head, of the political science division of Lucknow College.

The strongman of Rampur, at the flawed facet of age, has been suffering with various scientific prerequisites whilst grappling with hearings within the legal circumstances lodged in opposition to him in numerous courts.

On the other hand, as according to SP resources, Azam Khan is within the strategy of difficult his conviction order delivered by way of Rampur MP/MLA courtroom in Rampur classes Courtroom quickly. He’s consulting the prison luminaries and is prone to transfer the Periods Courtroom quickly because the MP/MLA courtroom whilst granting him intervening time bail had allowed him to problem his conviction inside every week’s time within the upper courtroom.