Azam Khan further claimed that the BJP was threatening SP campaigners for the Rampur Sadar Assembly byelection by utilising police and district authorities. Azam Khan, a senior member of the Samajwadi Party, addressed a gathering in Rampur on Sunday and made an emotional appeal to the voters there. The top leader pleaded with the people not to desert him because he didn’t have much time left: “We are forced to wait for injustice every moment. Ours is a population of unfortunate. The least fortunate people my people live here. That is why they remain oppressed.”
Azam Khan said that the BJP was employing police and district administration representatives to scare SP campaigners for the Rampur Sadar Assembly byelection while he was speaking to the media in Rampur on Saturday. “Akhilesh Yadav, Jayant Chaudhary and Chandrashekhar Azad are going to come here to campaign for the by-poll. But they need not, as elections are not going to take place in the district,” he said, news agency PTI reported.
“When Akhilesh Yadav comes here, I will ask him to request the Election Commission to declare the BJP candidate as the winner,” he added and also alleged that the SP workers were being “threatened” and “atrocities” were being meted out to them at the hands of police and district administration.
“Police broke doors of 50 houses and picked up innocent people from the road. They did not even spare my wife, who is a former MP, and used unparliamentary language for her,” Khan said. He claimed that his wife Tazeen Fatma had also received a warning not to leave the house. “Asking for votes for my party candidate is my right,” Khan said, adding that he has video footage of “police atrocities”, which he will not share with the media as then the court will not consider it as evidence.