UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday got the Indian Consulate here to cancel a reception to be hosted in his honour by it, upset over the brief detention of his Cabinet colleague Azam Khan at the Boston airport on Wednesday.
“Due to unavoidable circumstances, the reception scheduled to be held in honour of Akhilesh Kumar Yadav, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on April 27 at the Consulate General of India, New York, has been cancelled”, a communication from the Indian Consulate in New York said, without giving exact reasons for the step.
Consul General DM Mulay, who took charge on Wednesday after his assignment as ambassador to Maldives, refused to give any reason for cancellation of the reception.
This was to be the first official function of the Consulate after Mulay took charge. Yadav, yesterday had also boycotted the Harvard lecture he was due to deliver in protest against Khan’s detention.