Overview

• The Rampur visit on October 8 marked their first meeting since Azam Khan’s late-September release from Sitapur jail after nearly two years in custody.
• The discussion lasted about two hours over lunch with no one else present, after Khan publicly said he would meet only Akhilesh Yadav.
• Rampur MP Maulana Mohibullah Nadvi did not attend, with party aides leaving him in Bareilly in line with Khan’s stated preference.
• Akhilesh Yadav called the cases against Khan and his family politically driven and reiterated that an SP government would withdraw what it deems false charges in 2027.
• A widely shared clip claiming a recent Khan meeting with CM Yogi Adityanath was debunked as 2017 assembly footage by independent fact-checkers.