Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Haj Minister Mohd Azam Khan has asked External Affairs Minister SM Krishna to ensure that Haj pilgrims are issued passports on a priority basis. Khan has written a letter to Krishna asking him to direct the regional passport office at Lucknow, Ghaziabad and Bareilly to issue passports to willing Haj pilgrims within a week's time. The Haj minister in his letter said that a large number of...
10:28 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Rampur: Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan said on Tuesday he would look into complaints regarding land mafias and police atrocities on the people of his constiuency. Khan, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Development, Waqf and Minorities' welfare, said that three boxes will be kept at his office wherein people would be able to drop complaints regarding ration, police and land mafias. "I myself shall delve deep into the complaints and...
04:59 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan on Sunday took oath as a Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister for the second time following the fiasco on the first occasion when he had not taken the pledge of secrecy and office as per the Constitutional procedures. Khan was administered oath by Governor BL Joshi at a function at Raj Bhawan in the presence of senior party leaders including Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister...
02:23 PM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: Samjawadi Party leader Azam Khan will be sworn-in again on Sunday as a Uttar Pradesh cabinet member. That is because he did not fully read out his oath during the March 15 ceremony. A PIL brought this to notice after which the Governor's office looked into the recordings and found that he repeatedly ignored reading out full sentences despite being corrected by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav....
06:31 AM, Mar 18, 2012
Rampur: The Uttar Pradesh Police carried out a raid on actress-turned-politician Jayaprada when she was at a hotel in Rampur on Thursday. The police claimed it was a routine check to see whether she and others like her had illegally stocked up cash. The former actress, however, said all the complaints against her were fake. "These are fake complaints against me. The police came yesterday also. I am not fighting...
10:12 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Rampur: Uttar Pradesh is set to head for the final phase of polling on March 3. Boasting of an 18 per cent vote bank, the last two phases of polling in the state have the maximum concentration of the crucial Muslim vote. Samajwadi Party's Muslim face Azam Khan addressed a last meeting at Nalla Paar in downtown Rampur. In a vintage performance Azam touched local issues, but knowing well what...
08:22 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Lucknow: Throwing his weight behind Samajwadi party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Maulana Ahmad Bukhari on Saturday appealed to Muslims to vote for SP candidates in upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. But the Imam's appeal has significantly not gone down well within the SP itself when the party's Muslim face Azam Khan seemed to question the cleric's political loyalties. "Imam has plunged into political discussion...
07:47 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare's comments that a person has no option but to slap the corrupt when he runs out of tolerance and patience has stoked a fresh controversy. Hazare's comments have come in for sharp criticism from the political class with several leaders condemning it. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party and the Congress came out against Hazare's comment, saying that there are better ways to fight corruption...
12:31 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare's comments that a person has no option but to slap the corrupt when he runs out of tolerance and patience has stoked a fresh controversy. Hazare's comments have come in for sharp criticism from the political class with several leaders condemning it. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party and the Congress came out against Hazare's comment, saying that there are better ways to fight corruption...
12:31 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Rampur district in Uttar Pradesh has always been a political hotbed and this time it's a battle for survival between old friends turned foes - Azam Khan and Amar Singh. Former Samajwadi leader Amar Singh, says, "Mulayam Singhji has betrayed everybody. He is telling recovery agents to collect money ensuring them that the next government would be formed by SP." Sp leader Azam Khan says, "Amar Singh is...
09:29 AM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party has hit out at the Congress for raking up the Batla House encounter issue. Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav said that the SP has always maintained that it was a fake encounter and that Congress is saying that now just to get Muslim votes in state polls. "Digvijaya Singh and Congress are misleading Muslims in UP. Why has Congress realised its folly on Batla House encounter...
05:47 PM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh administration on Sunday started covering the statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and her party symbol elephant. The action follows orders from the Election Commission (EC) in the run up to Assembly Polls. The EC said that all statues must be covered by January 11 without causing any damage to them. The BSP has called the move biased and anti-Dalit. Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Azam Khan...
05:09 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Lucknow: The RLD suffered a double blow on Sunday with party chief Ajit Singh's close aide Anuradha Chaudhry joining the rival Samajwadi Party and party Rajya Sabha MP Shahid Siddiqui following suit. The two along with MLA Vimlesh Singh joined the party in presence of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, state president Akhilesh Yadav, leader of opposition Shivpal Singh Yadav and senior leader Mohammad Azam Khan. Anuradha Chowdhury, a former...
02:54 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Hitting a new low in Indian politics, Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Wednesday courted controversy by saying Kashmir as a part of India is 'debatable'. He made the statement at a political event in Badaun in uttar Pradesh. He also hit out at the Congress for not being serious about the interests of minorities citing that the UPA government had only one Muslim in the cabinet. Referring to Ghulam...
12:17 PM, Dec 22, 2010
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday revoked the expulsion of senior leader Azam Khan, who was expelled from the party after Lok Sabha elections in 2009. "SP National General Secretary Ram Gopal Yadav has written a letter to Khan informing him about Mulayam Yadav's decision to revoke his suspension," party sources said in Lucknow. "I am extremely happy to inform you that SP national president Mulayam Singh...
01:21 PM, Nov 03, 2010
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