Here are 15 times Azam Khan suffered from foot-in-mouth syndrome!

Senior Samajwadi Partyleader and UttarPradesh minister Azam Khan has a habit of raking up a controversy with his comments This time he has stirred up a hornets nestbysuggesting that the Bulandshahr highway gangrape could be anoutcome of a political conspiracy against the ruling partydrawing condemnation from rival partiesThe Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister created a controversy by alleging that a political conspiracy might be involved in the gang rape of a Noidabased mother and daughter near BulandshahrControversys favourite child Mohammed Azam KhanMohammad Azam Khan said in Raampur on Monday night that the investigative agencies should explore the possibility of some opposition party being involved in the gang rapeWhile justifying the action against policemen on the issue the minister further said that the government should also keep a watch on opponents as people can stoop to any levels in politicsTo get power politicians can get down to any level they can murder people trigger riots kill innocent people so the truth has to be found out he addedEight armed men stopped the family car on the DelhiKanpur highway early Saturday morning The men dragged the members to nearby sugarcane fields and proceeded to rape the teenager and her 38yearold mother The other members of the family were tied upThis is not the first time the urban development and parliamentary affairs minister of UP is in the news for hisbizarre commentsHere are 15 other instances when Azam Khan was in news for his insensitive remarksAzam Khan to rape victim Why rake up issue for fameRaking up another controversy Azam Khan told a rape victim in November 2015 not to try and find popularity in such a thing of infamy and shame The incident occurred during an event in Kanpur where the woman had come to petition the urban development minister on the slow pace of police investigation At the event when the woman allegedly raped in a moving car four months ago tried to raise the matter Azam Khan snapped back saying Agar aap badnami ko itni shohrat dengi toh zamane ko apni shakl kaise dikhayengi If you rake up such a shameful matter how will you have a face to live in the societyAzam Khans remarks on Paris attack spark rowUttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan stoked a controversy with his remarks on Paris terror attacks saying the superpowers should think whether it was a reaction to the killing of innocents in Arab countries drawing flak from BJP which demanded action against him Khan condemned the terrorist attacks in Paris but simultaneously raked up the issue of action by the US and Russia in Arab countries saying killing of innocents anywhere is not jutifiedWhatever the terrorists did in Paris was wrong But attack on Arab countries and killing of innocents there by US and Russia is also not justified he told reporters We need to look who killed whom first after that who retaliated This is a debatable issue You strike bombs through drones to kill the inncocent History will decide who is a terrorist and who is wrong Khan said last eveningBring back Tipu Sultans ring with Lord Rams name on itAzam Khan had last year asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring back a ring of the 18th century Mysore ruler from London which he claimed bore the name of Lord Rama The SP leader asked the prime minister to bring the ring which he claimed is preserved in Britains museum and show it to those BJP activists who have been launching antiTipu Sultan stirMobiles to blame for rise in child rape casesAzam Khan in October 2015 blamed the excessive use of mobile phones and easy access to paedophile content for the rise in child rapes It is very shameful that a 25yearold child is being raped and children are being burnt Any punishment is less for a crime like rape but we need to think what is the truth behind the rape of a 25yearold The truth is this mobile phone the content that you get to see on this for freerdquo Khan had saidHis statement came after last week saw two minor girls one aged twoandahalf and the other aged five being gangraped in separate incidents in DelhildquoEven in villages the kids in their teens get to see this dirt We have come to know that there are films which show bad things done to children aged 2 to 5 years Seeing all this our entire young generation is committing crimes this raises a big questionrdquo he addedPM Modis puppy has grown into VK Singhs dogComparing Minister of State for External Affairs General Retd VK Singhs lsquodogrsquo analogy to Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos controversial lsquopuppyrsquo remark that he had made during the runup to the general elections in 2013 Azam Khan had said that he was not surprised by the statement as it was the culture rampant in the Bharatiya Janata Party BJPI dont see anything wrong in what he has said The Prime Minister had used the word lsquopuppyrsquo and now the puppy has become a fully grown dog This is the culture of the BJP and the RSS and it is terribly hurting the nation Khan had saidPrime Minister Modi in his term as Gujaratrsquos chief minister had used a puppy analogy while referring to the deaths in his state in the 2002 riots that triggered a political storm and drew him major criticismEven If I am in the back seat of a car and a puppy kutte ka bachcha comes under the wheels isnt it painful It is Whether I am a chief minister or not I am a human being I will be sad if something bad happens anywhererdquo Modi had said in an interview to a news agencyMuslims are victims of saffron India Azam KhanIn an apparent attack on the BJPled NDA Government at the Centre Azam Khan had in October 2015 alleged that Muslims are not the citizens of democratic India but the victims of saffron India Khans comment came in the wake of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattars statement that Muslims need to give up beef to live in India which has garnered criticism from the political fraternityClearly this is not a nation that is governed by the Constitution These comments are always created for targeting the Muslims Khan saidGods wrath killed Rajiv Sanjay GandhiMohd Azam Khan told a stunned gathering at Bijnor town in APril 2014 that the untimely deaths of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and his brother Sanjay Gandhi were acts of Allah The senior minister in the Samajwadi Party government of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said both Rahul Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi had committed serious crimes and were punished by Allah and which is why they met brutal deathsAddressing an election rally Khan said that Sanjay Gandhi was responsible for mass and forcible sterlization during the emergency rule of his mother former prime minister Indira Gandhi He accused former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi of incurring the wrath of gods as he had presided over the opening of the Babri mosque to Hindus for prayersHe also said Allah will never spare people who conduct themselves against humanityAzam Khan calls BJPs Amit Shah Gunda No 1Azam Khan had in 2014 also called Narendra Modis close aide Amit Shah Gunda No 1 saying he has come to Uttar Pradesh to create terrorAmit Shah who has come to UP to create terror and is also an accused under Section 302 killing is the Gunda no1 Goon no1 Khan said about the BJP state campaign manager at a rally in Muslimdominated Masuri areaWould have led mob to demolish Taj MahalIn 2013 on a day when Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav expressed his admiration for the Taj Mahal to foreign delegates his cabinet member Mohammad Azam Khan spoke about razing the 17th century architectural wonderThe minister said while that the riots after the Babri Mosque demolition saddened him he would have led the frenzied crowds had they decided to bring down the Taj MahalHad people decided to demolish the Taj Mahal instead of the Babri mosque I would have led them Azam Khan said at a function in MuzaffarnagarShah 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 MayawatiDawood and Taliban paid for Mulayams buggyIn November 2014 SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav rode an imported Victorianstyle buggy and around 40 ministers gathered for his 75th mega birthday bash fuelling criticism The criticism was met with a caustic response from Azam Khan who said that that the Taliban and Dawood Ibrahim provided funds for the eventWhen questioned about the funding for the grand event an irate Khan who has left no stone unturned to make the celebrations successful said money has come from Taliban a terror group and Dawood Ibrahim an underworld donWhy does it matter where the money for celebrations is coming from Some have come from Taliban some from Abu Salem soem from DawoodIbrahim some from terrorists he said sarcasticallyI invite Shiv Sena to come and demolish the Taj MahalThe Samajwadi Party leader in Agra stoked a fresh controversy by expressing his support for the Hindu claim on the Taj Mahal and challenged the Shiv Sena to try to demolish it like they had demolished the Babri MasjidHe made these comments when he was asked for his views on the claims of a select group of historians and the Shiv Sena about the Taj Mahal being Tejomahalay a temple for Lord Shiva Khan said This left Muslims in Agra enraged who said the minister was insane and said that when he should visit a mental asylum for treatmentTaj Mahal should be handed over to Wakf BoardAzam had kicked up a row when he suggested that the Taj Mahal the monument of love in Agra and the income generated through it should be handed over to the Wakf Board contending that the monument is a mausoleumTaj Mahal is a mausoleum and each mausoleum is Wakf and comes under the Sunni Central Wakf Board Taj Mahal is a mausoleum of two Muslims Shahjahan and Mumtaz Mahal Who they are is not a matter of debateKhan said in a sarcastic note that the building constructed over the mausoleum is a different matter If it is a cheap building then it would be under Waqf Board and if it is an expensive building generating revenue then the Indian government will take the moneyThe SP leader said Taj Mahal can create at least two universities and fund their functioningKargil war was won by Muslim soldiersThe senior SP leader had in April 2014 come under fire over his statement that it was Indias lsquoMuslim soldiersrsquo who had won the 1999 Kargil war against PakistanIndia won the Kargil War solely because of Muslim soldiers and no Hindu soldier was behind the victory he had said at the timeAddressing a rally in Ghaziabad the senior Uttar Pradesh minister while asking ldquoHindus brothersrdquo to embrace Muslims saidrdquohellipisliye mohabbat karo ki Kargil ki pahadiyo ko fateh karne wala koi Hindu nahi tha balki Kargil ki pahadiyo ko naraetakbeer AllahHuAkbar kehkar fathe karnewale Musalman fauji thehellip love us because peaks of Kargil were not conquered by Hindus but by Muslim soldiers raising the battlecry of God is the GreatestrdquoRSS volunteers are homosexualsAzam Khan had kicked up a storm in December 2015 after he was quoted as saying many RSS leaders are unmarried because they are homosexuals Khan made the remarks after being told of Union finance minister Arun Jaitleys comment that the 2014 judgement on gay sex should be reconsidered by the Supreme CourtSecret tunnel between Narendra Modi and Smriti Iranis bungalowAzam Khan claimed there was a secret tunnel between Prime Minister Narendra Modis residence at 7RCR and Union Minister Smriti Iranis The SP leader made this claim in an exclusive interview given to the WikiLeaks4India When asked why people had problems with Iranis bungalow being adjacent to the PMs Khan said Ill tell you a secret There is a tunnel between Modi and Iranirsquos bungalow It is very confidential After the terrorist attack on the parliament security arrangements were made for the PM Secret tunnels were made between PMs residence and the nearby bungalow If I further open my mouth PM will be nude