Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has decided to take up the cudgels for the beleaguered party MP from Rampur, Mohammad Azam Khan.
Akhilesh will reach Rampur on Monday and stay there for two days. He will lead a big demonstration against the Rampur district administration and mobilise support for the party MP against whom the district administration has lodged 80 cases.
Cases have also been registered against the Rampur parliamentarian’s MLA son Abdullah Azam and wife Tanzeem Fatima who is a member of Rajya Sabha.
The UP Power Corporation Limited has slapped a fine of Rs 30 lakh and registered a case of power theft against Tazeen Fatma. The UPPCL had raided a resort owned by Azam Khan and detected power theft and disconnected the power connection.
Earlier this week, Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav had appealed to party cadre to hit the street in support of Azam Khan. Mulayam Singh Yadav had said that injustice had been done with Azam Khan and called upon party workers to protest against it.
The SP patron had alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party had unleashed a vendetta campaign against Azam Khan to prevent him from emerging a national leader.
The Rampur District Magistrate has declared Azam Khan as a land mafia and uploaded his name on the portal of the state government.
At least 80 FIRs have been registered against Azam Khan, who is Chancellor of Jauhar University, a private university in Rampur.
Samajwadi Party spokesman Rajendra Chowdhary confirmed on Saturday that party president Akhilesh Yadav would lead a demonstration in support of Azam Khan in Rampur.
He said all the top leaders of the party had been asked to reach Rampur on September 9 to participate in the demonstration.