Lucknow: Samajwadi Party leader and Rampur MLA Azam Khan was on Friday disqualified from the membership of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly. The Office of UP Assembly Speaker informed this a day after he was sentenced to three years in prison along with a fine of Rs 2,000 in a hate speech case of 2019.
Khan has lost his assembly membership as his imprisonment term is longer than two years. As per a 2013 Supreme Court judgment, if an MLA, MLC or MP is convicted in a criminal case and gets jailed for a minimum of two years then he/she loses membership of the house with immediate effect.
Azam Khan won the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Rampur (UP) but he vacated this seat after being elected to the UP state assembly in March 2022. He had won the 2022 assembly election from Rampur while being lodged in Sitapur jail.
On Thursday, the Samajwadi Party leader and two other accused were sentenced to three years in prison along with a fine of Rs 2,000 in a hate speech case over his speech against UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. However, he has been granted bail and given a week's time to appeal against the sentence.
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