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Would have led mobs to demolish Taj Mahal: Azam Khan
Monday January 28, 2013 03:23:04 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: On a day when
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav expressed his
admiration for the Taj Mahal to foreign delegates at the Jaypee
Palace hotel in Agra, his cabinet member and Parliamentary Affairs
and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Azam Khan spoke about
razing the 17th century architectural wonder.
The minister Sunday said while the riots after the Babri Mosque
demolition saddened him, he would have led the frenzied crowds had
they decided to bring down the Taj Mahal.
"Had people decided to demolish the Taj Mahal instead of the Babri
mosque, I would have led them," Azam Khan said at a function in
Muzaffarnagar, about 510 km from here.
He was there to distribute cheques to beneficiaries under various
government schemes.
"Shah Jahan had no right to spend crores from the public coffers
on his sweetheart," he said while comparing the 17th century
building to the monuments and statues built by former Uttar
Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader
Mayawati.
Azam Khan is seen as one of the most powerful ministers in the UP
government and is known to be a close confidant of Samajwadi Party
(SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
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