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SP leader Azam Khan questions Kashmirs accession
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khans remarks on Kashmir have given birth to a new controversy in the state.
Azam Khan, who rejoined the SP recently, created headache for party chief Mulayam Singh after he questioned Kashmirs accession to India.
In public comments made in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district, Khan said the UPA government had only one Muslim Cabinet minister - Ghulam Nabi Azad.
The firebrand SP leader further said that Azad was from the Kashmir Valley and "not India", as the dispute over Kashmir being part of India was yet to be resolved.
"Only one Muslim minister is there in the (Union) Cabinet and that too not from India, but from Kashmir. That Kashmir, which is still controversial and we don't know whether that is part of India or not...," Khan was quoted as saying.
Following his controversial statement, political parties are demanding action against the SP leader.
The statement has irked the political parties with the BJP saying that Azam Khan was just trying to create confusion among the Muslims like Digvijay Singh did to garner minority vote bank.
On the other hand, the Congress demanded legal action against the SP leader from the Mayawati government and sought an explanation from party president Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Azam Khan is known for his critical political statements in the past and had even landed in problem for his remarks on the Ambedkar Memorial in Lucknow and calling Bharat Mata as demon.