Rumours about senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s resignation from the Akhilesh Yadav cabinet kept doing rounds in Lucknow Tuesday afternoon, reports Sharat Pradhan/ Rediff.com.
Soon after his abrupt departure from Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s residence where he had gone to have a word on the outcome of the Bihar elections, rumours began floating about the possibility of Azam Khan's resignation from the party.
Khan, who remained inaccessible through the day, eventually surfaced late Tuesday night in Rampur where he remained vague on the issue.
“I do not wish to make any comment on that issue,” he told the anxious press corps whom he kept eluding.
Asked if he had any tiff with Mulayam earlier during the day, Khan denied any such altercation.
However, confirming that he had met the SP president before leaving Lucknow, he said, “I did not have any argument with netaji.”
Azam Khan was stated to have walked out in a huff after he was snubbed by Mulayam for raising questions on the latter’s decision to walk out of the grand alliance in Bihar at the eleventh hour.
Khan was understood to have tried to have suggested to Mulayam that SP had suffered serious loss of face on that account as the decision was seen as a move to indirectly help the Bharatiya Janata Party by dividing the secular vote in Bihar.
