Bulandshahr gangrape is a political conspiracy: Azam Khan

TIL Desk/National/Lucknow/New Delhi-Senior SP leader and Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan has kicked up a controversy by suggesting that the Bulandshahr highway gangrape could be an outcome of a political conspiracy against the ruling party, drawing condemnation from rival parties.

Khan termed the gangrape of a 13-year-old girl and her mother by a group of bandits near Bulandshahr last week as an attempt to “malign” the Samajwadi Party(SP) government by those who want to “come to power” in poll-bound UP. Assembly elections in UP are due next year.

“It must be investigated whether people, with the opposite ideology or those who want to come to power, are behind this incident in order to malign the government,” he said in Rampur yesterday.