Tourism and Culture Minister Jaiveer Singh on Tuesday slammed Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for returning the ‘Y’ security provided to him by the Yogi Adityanath government.
“It was the erstwhile Samajwadi Party government which vitiated discipline in police and introduced the element of caste in police administration. Azam Khan is reaping what he had sowed when he was a minister in the SP government,” the minister said.
“There is no vendetta against any political person and no one is targeted by the BJP government. The BJP government is only tirelessly working to reform the police administration which had been reduced to a private army by the previous SP government. In 2012, when the Samajwadi Party was in power and Azam Khan was the parliamentary affairs minister, I was a Bahujan Samaj Party MLA and a case of looting wrist watches was registered against me. Azam Khan had justified the flimsy case and argued that the cost of the wrist watches varied from Rs 50 to Rs 50 lakh, and they could be looted,” the minister recalled.
