With the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections just months away, Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday visited founding member and senior party leader Mohammad Azam Khan at Rampur district jail, delivering a strong public endorsement of the veteran leader’s continued importance in state politics.
“These false cases do not have the power to keep him imprisoned forever. It may take time and there may be some delay. He also alleged that the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in Rampur had been deliberately ruined as part of a conspiracy. He added that Khan had not sought any specific seats for the upcoming elections but had offered suggestions on the party’s strategy, which had been taken on board. “Akhilesh Yadav Ji, the Muslim community of Uttar Pradesh is no longer going to be misled by you.
He said the two leaders discussed Khan’s health, the party’s strategy for the 2027 elections and the political situation across all 403 assembly constituencies in the state.
Accusing the BJP-led state government of framing fabricated cases against Khan, Yadav said false cases could not keep the veteran leader incarcerated forever. But false cases do not have the power to keep the truth imprisoned,” he said. “Even a dictatorial government would not have caused such devastation to an educational institution,” Yadav said, adding that the SP would fulfil Khan’s dream for the university. Describing the visit as both political and personal, Yadav said his bond with Rampur was emotional as well as political. Yadav said Khan’s health had improved, although the hardships of jail continued to affect him. Earlier reporting noted: “No family, particularly no political family, has faced as much injustice as the family of respected Azam Khan,” he said. Earlier reporting noted: Questioning the cases against the veteran leader, Yadav said, “These false cases do not have the power to keep him imprisoned forever.
Today, the affection you suddenly show towards Azam Khan is not out of genuine love or affection; it is merely to use him as a stepping stone for your politics of appeasement,” Singh said. Earlier reporting noted: RAMPUR/LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party SP president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday met senior party leader Azam Khan at Rampur district jail, accusing the BJP government of targeting the veteran leader through false cases and alleging that his family had faced unprecedented injustice.
