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.
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Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan, often in news for making controversial statements, on Thursday praised Hindu religion saying it was the most tolerant religion.
Amid SP staring at a possible split due to open rebellion by Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh minister and SP leader Azam Khan today said that the bad blood between members of the ruling family will
Uttar Pradesh Minister and Samajwadi Party's senior leader Azam Khan today tendered an conditional apology in Supreme Court for his controversial remarks on the Bulandshahr gang rape case. The apex court accepted Khan's affidavit, saying
In a huge setback to senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, the Supreme Court today rejected his ‘apology’ tendered to Bulandshahr gang-rape victims, saying it ‘was not an unconditional apology’.
Following a directive by the Supreme Court, senior UP Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan today tendered an unconditional apology to the Bulandshahr gangrape victims for his controversial remarks that the crime was a ‘political conspiracy’.
In a yet another controversial statement, senior Samajwadi Party leader and UP minister Azam Khan has asked BJP MP MP Yogi Adityanath to get married and “prove his masculinity”.
Muslim face of Samajwadi Party and senior minister in Akhilesh Yadav Cabinet, Azam Khan, has criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for raising ‘Jai Shree Ram’ slogan at the Dussehra function in Lucknow.
Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Tuesday pitted himself as candidate fit for the post of the Prime Minister of India as he shares many of incumbent PM Narendra Modi’s traits.
Senior Uttar Pradesh minister and Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has said that he is not in favour of releasing the video of surgical strikes carried out by Indian Army against terror launch pads based out of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
In more trouble for senior UP minister Azam Khan, the Supreme court directed the Central Board of Investigation to serve notice to Samajwadi party leader for not appearing before it for his controversial statement on
Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan today sarcastically remarked that he poses all qualities to become the Prime Minister of India except for the fact that he is a Muslim.
In a strong reprimand to senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for his 'political conspiracy' remark in the aftermath of the Bulandshahr gangrape, the Supreme Court today said that such statements issued by political leaders
Days after the victims of Bulandshahr gangrape approached the Supreme Court seeking registration of an FIR against Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Azam Khan for his unwarranted remark on the incident, the senior Samajwadi Party leader has demanded tha
Slamming the detention of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan at a US airport, UP Minister Azam Khan has targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama, saying Muslims are ‘disturbed a lot’. “Modiji
The wife of former Cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi cabinet Ramshankar Katheria has asked the police to take urgent steps to locate ‘Kalu’ her pet Labrador which has been missing for the past three days.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader IP Singh today stoked a fresh controversy with his remark that Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan will learn a lesson only after his ‘wife and daughter gets gang-raped’.
Reacting to Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s statement that the brutal gangrape of a mother-daughter duo in Bulandshahr ‘could be a political conspiracy’, the victims’ family said that the Uttar Pradesh minister has ‘gone mad’.
Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has stoked a controversy yet again with his remark that the brutal gangrape of a mother-daughter duo in Bulandshahr ‘could be a political conspiracy’.
Lucknow: BJP MLA and Muzaffarnagar riot accused Sangeet Som today targeted Samajwadi party leader Azam Khan and claimed that his Mohammad Ali Jauhar university is a bastion of terrorist activities. Addressing a rally in Shamli,
Senior UP minister Azam Khan on Friday took a dig at the state Governor and said that he is actually afraid of Ram Naik.
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