Mohammad Azam Khan (born 14 August 1948) is an Indian politician, lawyer and former elected representative who has served as the Member of Parliament from Rampur.
He forged unions of bidi and textile workers and rickshaw pullers in order to take on Nawab of Rampur in 1980's.
In his fourth term (11th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh), Azam Khan was a member of Samajwadi Janata Party.
[10] After his successful win in 2014, Khan has been given ticket from Rampur constituency by the Samajwadi Party for the Lok Sabha elections of 2019.
[12][13][14] During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Khan was prohibited from campaigning twice after Election Commission of India found him guilty of making objectionable comments in six of his speeches, including foul comments for his opponent Jaya Prada, and violating the Model Code of Conduct.
[15][16] Khan was accused of making sexist remarks again, while addressing his electorate for the first time after winning the Lok Sabha election, and a case was filed against him.
[19] In 2023, Azam Khan was sentenced to two-years imprisonment by the court for using “criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty” and inciting violence.
This incident occurred in 2008 when the police stopped his vehicle for a search after an attack on a CRPF camp in his constituency, Khan obstructed traffic on the road and caused inconvenience to the public on the highway.
[33] On 27 October 2022, an MP-MLA magistrate court Sentenced three-year jail term to Khan finding him guilty of hate speech in a 2019 case.
[35] In October 2024, the Supreme Court of India berated Azam Khan and labelled the lease of government land to his Maulana Mohamad Ali Jauhar Trust in Rampur as a “misuse of office”.