LUCKNOW: In a first, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s estranged uncle Shivpal Yadav pointed fingers at patriarch Mulayam Singh for not standing up for Azam Khan. Shivpal said had Netaji (Mulayam) led a dharna of SP MPs and taken up Azam Khan’s case with the Prime Minister, things would have been different.
Azam is in jail since February 2020 in connection with over a 100 FIRs lodged against him for cases like land grabbing and fraud after the BJP government came to power in 2017.