Lucknow: It’s concerning the 2017 meeting elections. Azam Khan, the then City Building Minister and SP’s sturdy chief, had stated, ‘Do not be petrified of this collector-flatter, he’s a salaryman… I can get him to wash my sneakers.’ Azam Khan and his circle of relatives’s political clout is these days transferring against being ‘bulldozed’ within the ‘combat’ with those tankhais. After Azam Khan’s son Abdullah Azam Khan was once additionally convicted and the legislature was once cancelled, the query has deepened that what’s the political long term of the Azam circle of relatives in Rampur now?
The celebrities of Azam Khan, the nationwide common secretary of SP, who dominated politics for 2 and a part many years, are these days in decline. Azam, whose coin used to run within the politics of UP, has spent the final 5 years in additional jails than the capital Lucknow, attending court-courts and in health center because of deteriorating well being. His club in Hate Speech has been cancelled. Azam’s spouse and previous Rajya Sabha MP Tanzin Fatma additionally has dozens of circumstances in opposition to her and the sword of punishment is placing. The Moradabad court docket on Monday sentenced his son Abdullah Azam, MLA from Swar, to 2 years imprisonment after being discovered in charge of obstructing authentic paintings. An order has been issued to cancel his meeting club as neatly. In one of these state of affairs, it’s the first time in 3 many years that no member of Azam’s circle of relatives has remained part of any space.
Who will maintain the political capital?
Azam Khan has been banned from contesting elections for 6 years. Son Abdullah Azam may also now not be capable of contest elections for 6 years. Spouse Tanzin Fatma could also be struggling with unwell well being and litigation. In one of these state of affairs, the disaster of discovering the ‘inheritor’ of Azam Khan’s political capital has arisen. Azam’s elder son Adeeb and daughter-in-law Sidra don’t seem to be politically lively. Alternatively, the images of Sidra Adeeb assembly Akhilesh all over Azam’s keep in prison had without a doubt long gone viral. She could also be lively on social media. However, the way in which the members of the family are going to prison one after the other and are being convicted, there may be doubt about whether or not Azam will take away extra faces from the circle of relatives within the elections. The query could also be that in the middle of ever lowering political activism and lengthening disaster, will Azam be capable of get different family members to go into the home in the similar approach because it used to occur previous on his ‘behest’.
Workout out of doors the circle of relatives additionally ‘failed’
Azam Khan’s process of having a bet out of doors the circle of relatives to save lots of his political capital and legacy in Rampur has failed up to now. Azam had resigned from the Lok Sabha in 2022 after being elected MLA from Rampur. Within the by-election held in June final 12 months, he fielded his shut aide Asim Raja however the seat was once wrested by means of the BJP. After the cancellation of club in hate speech, having a bet on Asim Raja didn’t paintings even within the Rampur meeting by-election. The seat which was once regularly occupied by means of Azam and his circle of relatives since 1980 with the exception of for one election, the BJP additionally captured that seat. It’s transparent from this that the variation of political affect between Azam’s circle of relatives and the faces preventing from out of doors is obviously visual.
Who will combat with Swar?
Abdullah Azam’s Swar seat has been declared vacant. Now the by-election is mounted in this seat. Hypothesis is happening in Rampur relating to whom Azam will combat right here. Abdullah has been elected MLA right here for the second one time. His club was once canceled in 2020 as neatly, however he once more gained unilaterally within the final meeting elections. The way in which Azam has stored the members of the family out of the election within the final two by-elections, there are prime hopes of having a bet on a brand new face in Swar as neatly. In 2022, this seat was once given by means of BJP to Apna Dal’s account, their technique may also be monitored within the by-elections. At the moment, at stake on this complete workout is Azam’s political ‘kingdom’ which is collapsing each day and these days he does now not see any option to recuperate from it.