Known for making controversy, minister for urban development and Parliamentary affairs, Azam Khan once again created piquant situation for the government when he reportedly shot a letter to chief secretary Jawed Usmani raising his annoyance over delay in completion of Haj House at Ghaziabad. Interestingly, he even registered his anger by asking the government to take the project back and instead use the land for some other purpose.
Sources confirmed that Azam Khan dispatched a letter to chief secretary Jawed Usmani regarding unnecessary delay in release of fund for completion of Haj House at Ghaziabad. Urban Development minister accused the officials of Finance Department for creating one after another hurdles by raising objections in releasing the fund for the purpose.
In his letter Azam Khan claimed that he personally gone into the details of reason of delay and discussed it with the finance department but he found no valid reason for raising objection. He also gave necessary directions for paving way of the funds but still the Finance Department failed to give any response. Annoyed with this attitude of Finance Department senior officials, Azam Khan in his letter reportedly registered his anger with the chief secretary claiming ``Waqf Board is not a house of thieves that money has been not given to them to construct Haj House’.
Urban Development minister not stopped even after making above remarks but went on to ask chief secretary that it is better that the government should take back the Haj House project and use the land and money for some other purpose.
Earlier also Azam Khan, who enjoyed number two position in Akhilesh Yadav’s government created trouble for SP sumpremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son when he stayed away from the national executive of the Party in Agra showing his annoyance in the manner in which the Government handled the situation in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli which witnessed worst ever riots. Senior Party leaders even came out in open over Azam’s conduct and said that he should not think that he was bigger than the Party. SP MP Naresh Agarwal also criticized Azam Khan and said that Azam should not think himself to be leaders of Muslim but the community is with the Party just because of Mulayam Singh Yadav.
To give a break to that controversy, Mulayam first came in support of Azam and gave statement in his favour. later his son Akhilesh Yadav reportedly made a patch-up exercise by visiting Azam’s residence in lucknow in the name of enquiring about his health. Now once again Azam registered his protest in the matter related to minority community. Recently also Azam was in news after his personal staff refused to work under him and sought their transfer some where else.