No Azam Khan Family Member In Rampur Poll Contest, 1st Time In 45 years
NDTV
The Samajwadi Party did not field Azam Khan's wife Tanzeen Fatima or his daughter-in-law and gave ticket to his loyalist Asim Raza for the upcoming Rampur bypolls which will be held on December 5.
For the first time since 1977, Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan or a member of his family is not in the fray for election to the Rampur assembly seat. Polling will be held on the seat on December 5 in a bypoll after it fell vacant following Azam Khan's disqualification over conviction in a hate speech case.
The Samajwadi Party did not field Azam Khan's wife Tanzeen Fatima or his daughter-in-law and gave ticket to his loyalist Asim Raza. Azam Khan or a member of his family have fought from the seat continuously since 1977.
Mr Khan has contested 12 assembly elections from 1977 to 2022 from the seat of which he has won ten times and lost twice.
In the by-election held after Azam Khan became a Member of Parliament in 2019, his wife Tazeen Fatma contested and won. Now Asim Raja will now try his luck in the by-election.
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