Lucknow: Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, who rejoined the party recently, has stoked a controversy when he questioned whether Kashmir was part of India after he said there is only one Muslim minister in the Union Cabinet who is not from this country but who is from Kashmir.
At a public meeting in Badaun, about 250 km from here, last night, Khan said that Ghulam Nabi Azad is the lone Muslim cabinet minister in the UPA government but he is a “Kashmiri.”
“Only one Muslim minister (Azad) is there in the (Union) Cabinet and that too not of India, but from Kashmir. That Kashmir, which is still controversial and we don’t know whether that is part of India or not…,” Khan said in remarks that could embarrass the SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.
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