Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday expelled senior leader Mohammad Azam Khan for six years for anti-party activities, capping weeks of bitter feud with party leadership over its closeness with former BJP leader Kalyan Singh and its choice of Jaya Prada as candidate from Rampur.
“Azam Khan was involved in anti-party activities for a long time. Despite the national leadership’s request, he continued indisciplined behaviour and did not attend party meetings,” SP state president Shivpal Singh Yadav said.