{"id":311277,"date":"2019-04-15T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311277"},"modified":"2019-04-15T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T07:53:09","slug":"azam-khans-controversial-remark-against-jaya-prada-sparks-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/azam-khans-controversial-remark-against-jaya-prada-sparks-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Azam Khan\u2019s controversial remark against Jaya Prada sparks outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311278 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/azamjaya-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/azamjaya-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/azamjaya-485x320.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/azamjaya.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan made controversial remark against actor turned politician and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Jaya Prada on Sunday which sparked outrage against Khan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reacting on the remark, Jaya Prada on Monday said that Azam Khan should not be allowed to contest elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jaya further said, \u201cif Azam wins, what will happen to democracy? There will be no place for women in society. Where will we go?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khan made controversial remark while speaking at an election rally in Rampur on Sunday, from where he is fighting the Lok Sabha polls against Jaya Prada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khan had said, \u201cSomeone that I mentored personally and brought to Rampur, someone who led you as a leader for 10 years, you took 17 years to identify but I recognised in just 17 days that even the underwear beneath is coloured khakhi\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj took to Twitter and asked\u00a0Mulayam Singh Yadav not to make the &#8220;mistake&#8221; of staying silent just like\u00a0Pitamah\u00a0Bhishma, when Draupadi was disrobed by Duryodhana in Mahabharata.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Clarifying on the remark, Khan said that he did not name anyone, Khan said that he would withdraw his candidature from the ongoing polls if proven guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cI was a nine-time MLA from Rampur and been a minister. I know what to say.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khan also accused the media of misinterpreting his comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile National Commission for Women (NCW) has sent a notice to Azam Khan over his alleged remark on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan made controversial remark against actor turned politician and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Jaya Prada on Sunday which sparked outrage against Khan. Reacting on the remark, Jaya Prada on Monday said that Azam Khan should not be allowed to contest elections. Jaya further said, \u201cif Azam wins, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[8835,11197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311279,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311277\/revisions\/311279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}