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Azam Khan

Azam Khan is the founder member of Samajwadi Party and a member of the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India.He was also one of the senior most Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh and has been a member of the legislative assembly for nine terms from Rampur assembly constituency. Azam Khan was born on 14 August 1948 in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. He attained Bachelor of Laws degree in 1974 from Aligarh Muslim University. He married Tazeen Fatma in 1981 and has two sons.He worked as a lawyer before joining politics. He has been into several controversies which sparked attention from the media. He is known for sharing quite a close relation with Mulayam Singh Yadav, the former Chief Minister of U.P. Khan is currently a member of the Samajwadi Party but has been a member of four other political parties between 1980 and 1992. During his first term, he was a member of Janata Party (Secular). During his second term, he was a member of the Lok Dal. Khan was a member of Janata Dal during his third term. In his fourth term, Azam Khan was a member of Janata Party. Since 1993, he has been a member of the Samajwadi Party.

Azam Khan

After land, books, statues and buffaloes, Azam Khan now booked for stealing goats
India | Sep 13, 2019, 09:34 AM IST
An FIR against him has been lodged on a complaint filed in October 2016 by one Naseema Khatoon, 50, a resident of Yateem Khan Sarai Gate, Rampur Public Gate.
Azam Khan's sons, wife get notice in land grabbing case
India | Sep 09, 2019, 03:37 PM IST
The notice has been issued to Azam Khan's wife Tazeen Fatima, who is also Rajya Sabha MP and two of their sons - Abdullah Azam Khan and Adeeb Azam Khan under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) over land encroachment.
FIR registered against MP Azam Khan's wife Tazin Fatima for electricity theft in Rampur resort
India | Sep 06, 2019, 07:49 AM IST
The Uttar Pradesh Police has lodged an FIR against Samajwadi Party leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan's wife Tajeen Fatima for electricity theft in a resort.

Mulayam comes out in support of Azam Khan
National | Sep 03, 2019, 03:14 PM IST
Coming out in support of Khan, the SP patriarch said at a press conference here that, "Injustice is being meted out to Khan and SP workers will launch a protest against it".
UP Police detain Azam Khan's sister for questioning in land grabbing case
India | Aug 30, 2019, 08:06 PM IST
Superintendent of Police, Rampur, Ajay Pal Sharma said that Nikhat Aflaq is the treasurer of the Jauhar Trust and "we needed to question her regarding the complaints filed by farmers about land grabbing by Azam Khan".
Azam Khan booked for stealing buffalo
India | Aug 30, 2019, 10:35 AM IST
The case has been registered against Khan, former Circle Officer Alay Hasan and four others. The FIR also includes 40 unnamed persons.

Azam Khan booked for dacoity in Rampur
India | Aug 29, 2019, 03:56 PM IST
The senior leader has been named in the FIR along with former circle officer Alay Hasan, Fashahat Shanu, Virendra Goyal and constable Dharmendra for dacoity, conspiracy and forgery.
Fresh troubles for Azam Khan as forest department investigates missing khair trees case
News | Aug 24, 2019, 12:12 PM IST
Samajwadi Party leader and MP from Rampur Lok Sabha seat Azam Khan's troubles are not looking like ending. Now, he has now been accused of illegally cutting thousands of Khair trees from the government lease land given to Johar University.
Azam Khan moves High Court for quashing of 27 FIRs against him
India | Aug 23, 2019, 11:24 PM IST
As the matter came up for hearing, a bench of justices Pritinkar Diwakar and Justice Raj Beer Singh adjourned the hearing on the petition for August 29 on the request of Khan's counsel R K Jain.

Azam Khan's luxury resort in UP faces trouble
News | Aug 16, 2019, 12:59 PM IST
Samajwadi Party leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan, who recently made headlines over land grabbing cases, is once again in the deep end as the district administration has razed down the boundary of his luxury resort ‘Humsafar’.
Boundary wall of Azam Khan's luxury resort 'Humsafar' in Rampur demolished
India | Aug 16, 2019, 01:42 PM IST
The district administration of Rampur, according to sources, was preparing to demolish the boundary wall of the resort "in a day or two".
With 72 cases, UP Police plans to declare Azam Khan a 'history sheeter'
India | Aug 12, 2019, 04:34 PM IST
The UP police are now preparing to open a 'history sheet' of Samajwadi Party MP Mohd Azam Khan and formally declare him a history-sheeter. Azam Khan has 72 cases against him so far.

'Keep the knot of love intact,' Azam Khan pens emotional Eid message to Rampur
India | Aug 12, 2019, 11:01 AM IST
Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, who has been courting trouble in many forms, posted a video message on social media on the occasion of Eid wishing the people in his parliamentary constituency Rampur in Uttar Pradesh.
Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan was rusticated from AMU: Shia cleric
India | Aug 09, 2019, 10:48 AM IST
Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, who was recently made to apologise for his derogatory behaviour towards a presiding officer in the Lok Sabha, was rusticated from the Aligarh Muslim University in 1975 for allegedly misbehaving with a woman.
Trouble mounts for Azam Khan, 27 FIRs over land grab for university
India | Aug 04, 2019, 10:13 AM IST
As many as 27 FIRs have been lodged against Samajwadi Party leader and Lok Sabha MP Azam Khan in the last one month on the allegation that he grabbed farmers' land for his university in Rampur, police said.

Abdullah Azam Khan now charged with forgery
India | Aug 02, 2019, 05:23 PM IST
Akash Saxena has claimed in his complaint that the Samajwadi Party leader has mentioned different birth dates in education certificates and the passport documents.
Rampur SP tells Azam Khan to keep gunners round the clock
India | Aug 02, 2019, 11:56 AM IST
Azam Khan has been in news for 26 FIR's registered against him for illegally grabbing the government land or lands of farmers in Rampur. In most of the cases registered against him, there is no record of land dealings and no documents either.
Azam Khan booked by ED in money-laundering case
India | Aug 02, 2019, 11:57 AM IST
The ED filed its case under the criminal section of Prevention Money Laundering Act (PMLA) taking cognisance of at least 26 FIRs registered against Khan by the UP police for alleged land grab.
Samajwadi Party workers protest in Azam Khan's support, section 144 imposed in Rampur
India | Aug 01, 2019, 03:55 PM IST
The district administration has imposed the prohibitory orders in Rampur and the party MP ST Hasan and former MP Dharmendra Yadav were taken into custody for violating Section 144.
SP protests against detention of Azam Khan's son
India | Jul 31, 2019, 04:59 PM IST
SP leaders, led by state party President Naresh Uttam, reached the Raj Bhavan and staged a demonstration when they were not allowed entry. They demanded to meet Governor Anandiben Patel but were denied entry because they had not sought any appointment.