Lucknow:Abdullah Azam, Samajwadi Party MLA and son of veteran party leader Azam Khan, was on Wednesday disqualified from the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly under the Representation of the People Act, days after being sentenced to two-year imprisonment in a 15-year-old case by the MP-MLA court in Moradabad. The issue came to the fore following a letter from Rampur BJP MLA Akash Saxena, who submitted a letter to Pradeep Dubey, Principal Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
"Abdullah Azam Khan is currently the sitting MLA for constituency no. 4 - Suar assembly constituency. Provisions have been made for the termination of membership of any people's representative if they are charged with a two-year prison sentence Under sections 8(1), (2) and (3) of Representation of the People Act, 1951..." Saxena said in his letter filed on February 14.