Bukhari’s role was evident in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, in which he backed the Samajwadi Party. It’s noteworthy that Bukhari had opposed the SP in the 2007 Assembly election and the 2009 Lok Sabha election. So people started speculating about his motive. Soon, the news came out that his son-in-law Umar Ali Khan had been given an SP ticket. The SP had enlisted Bukhari’s support in the hope that Muslims would then vote for them. However, Khan lost despite being the only Muslim candidate from Behat, which had an 80 percent Muslim population. But Bukhari was nonplussed. He got Khan a seat in the Legislative Council. Later, when Bukhari asked Mulayam Singh Yadav to get his brother a Rajya Sabha seat and make Khan a minister, Yadav refused. Conflict ensued. This brought an end to their association and Khan resigned from the Legislative Council. When the media asked the Imam the reason for this split, he said that the SP government was deceiving Muslims.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:35:16 +0000
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