Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Wednesday said that the BJP invoked his name whenever elections are near, treating him like an ‘item girl’.
“I am the item girl of the BJP,” Azam Khan reacted, indirectly suggesting that his name helped the Bharatiya Janata Party to attract voters. “They contest all the elections on my name. The last assembly election was fought on my name and the same is the case with the coming Lok Sabha elections,” he added.
Talking to the reporters on the sidelines of an event in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, he further said, “The present state of affairs is such that I do not remember how many cases have been filed against me and where.” “I keep getting summons and warrants,” he added.
Meanwhile, BJP slammed Azam Khan over the indecent item girl remark. Uttar Pradesh BJP spokesperson Chandramohan said, “Azam Khan has become mentally deranged. The days of politics of vote bank, appeasement and corruption, which he had been indulging in, are over.”
“The indecent words which he has used only indicate his thought process. This is the thought process of the Samajwadi Party and people who are associated with SP chief Akhilesh Yadav,” he added.
Notably, Azam Khan was reacting to the registration of the second FIR against him in a week. A complaint was filed against Azam Khan by a pro-Ambedkar group for allegedly making defamatory remarks against the Dalit icon two years ago. Previously, Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh had filed an FIR against the controversial SP leader for allegedly threatening his daughters with acid attack.
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