A day after being denied permission to enter Azamgarh, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said in lucknow that the ruling Samajwadi Party was 'insecure' of him.
On Saturday, I did road shows in Balrampur, Siddarthnagar and Sant Kabir Nagar and got a warm response especially from the youths, but I was stopped in Azamgarh. The SP regime is in fact insecure" he tweeted on Sunday morning.
"The SP is preventing me from holding public meetings, enter Azamgarh. Remember Akhilesh Yadav, power is not eternal. I will be coming more (sic)," he tweeted.
Owaisi was slated to visit Mubarakpur and Sanjarpur in Azamgarh on Sunday. later he was scheduled to vist Varanasi via Jaunpur before returning to New Delhi.
The AIMIM chief was denied entry into Azamgarh by the district administration citing communal tension in Mubarakpur area. Following the denial, Owaisi cut short his two-day tour to eastern UP and returned to lucknow early Sundaymorning and later left for Delhi. This was the 17th time in two years that Owaisi was denied entry into Azamgarh .
DM, Suhash l Y banned his entry besides denying permission of any of his programme in Mubarakpur and other places in the district on Sunday.
Mubarakpur was gripped with communal strife over the alleged use of a holy book as envelop by a local eatery. Both the DM and the SP are camping in the town and adequate forces have been deputed to avert any exigency.
Azamgarh is the parliamentary constituency of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and the AIMIM is attempting to make a dent there.
In 2012 Assembly polls, the SP had won 9 of the 10 seats in the district while the other was won by the Bahujan Samaj party.