Azam Khan's Son, Wife Samajwadi Candidates From Same UP Seat. Here's Why
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Explaining the dual nomination from UP's Suar seat, a Samajwadi spokesperson said BJP can manipulate even nomination of candidates and not let them contest the polls.
Jailed Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan's son and wife have filed their nominations from the same assembly constituency as the party's candidates for the Uttar Pradesh polls.
Both Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan, who was released from jail recently, and his mother Tazeen Fatma have filed their affidavits from the Suar assembly seat in Rampur district, according to the Election Commission (EC) website.
Azam Khan, who was a cabinet minister in the previous Akhilesh Yadav-led government, had on Thursday filed his nomination papers, while being in jail, for the assembly polls from the Rampur seat.
"We have seen the BJP government framing a former minister, who had developed Rampur, in frivolous cases of goat and cycle theft. They can manipulate even nomination of our candidates and not let them contest the polls and because of political vendetta," Samajwadi Party (SP) spokesperson Abbas Haider told news agency PTI on the dual nomination from Suar seat.
