Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Leader Jaya Prada on Friday filed a petition in Allahabad High Court challenging the election of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan from the Rampur parliamentary constituency for holding an ‘office of profit’.
In the plea filed by BJP Leader, it has been alleged that Samajwadi Party Staunch Leader Azam Khan, at the time election, held a post of the Chancellor of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, which was an office of profit.
She further alleged that Khan made religious appeals to get votes which is a violation of Representation of People Act.
Prada was accompanied by former SP Leader Amar Singh filing filling the petition before the registry of the court.
Earlier, the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court had dismissed Jaya Prada’s petition, stating that Rampur fell under the jurisdiction of the Allahabad High Court.
She had earlier written to Election Commission and Chief Election Commissioner seeking disqualification of Azam Khan. She had on June 8 said that earlier Jaya Bachchan and Sonia Gandhi had to quit as Member of Parliament since they were holding Office of Profit.
Both Prada and Khan had a bitter spat with each other during the campaigning of Lok Sabha Polls. In a run-up to the national polls, the Poll Body imposed a ban on Samajwadi Party Senior Leader Azam Khan from election campaigning for 72 hours for making derogatory remarks on BJP Leader and his opponent Jaya Prada.
Jaya Prada joined Bharatiya Janata Party in March early this year and was pitched against Samajwadi Party Staunch Leader Azam Khan.
In the recently held national polls, Azam Khan defeated Jaya Prada with over 1 Lakh votes.
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