In a tit for tat, Imam of Jama masjid, Delhi, Syed Ahmed Bukhari
termed SP’s Muslim mascot Azam Khan as a `blot on the community’ and
demanded his dismissal from the state cabinet. Earlier this week, Khan
had described Bukhari as an `RSS agent’ and also questioned the marriage
of the Imam’s son with a Hindu girl.
Khan in his inimitable style had claimed that if his son had married a
Hindu girl, it would have created a political storm. “The RSS was silent
about Bukhari’s son marrying a Hindu girl and did not see a Love Jihad
in Bukhari’s son’s marriage,” he had said.
Returning the diatribe, Bukhari wrote to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav
and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav alleging that Muslims had no say in
the UP government only because of Azam Khan who is a blot on the
community and demanded his dismissal from the cabinet.
Bukhari also targeted Khan’s wife - a Rajya Sabha MP and Munawwar
Salim, also Rajya Sabha MP, who is physically challenged and a protégé
of Azam Khan. He queried, ``Is it the destiny of Muslims where an
arrogant minister, his maid and handicapped persons are representatives
of the Muslims’’.
Bukhari opined that the Samajwadi Party will face dire consequences in
the 2017 Assembly polls if Azam Khan was not expelled from the cabinet
and the party. ``Resentment among the Muslims against Khan and the SP
government is growing by leaps and bounds. The Muslims have already
expressed their anger against the SP government by voting against them
during the Panchyat elections.’’ He went on to add that leaders like
Azam Khan have used politics for personal benefits by exploiting and
fanning Hindu-Muslim fault lines.
Source: The Pioneer, 27th Nov 2015
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