Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav said on Thursday that he will visit Rampur on October 8 to meet senior party leader and former state Cabinet minister Azam Khan, who was recently released from jail .

Addressing a press conference in Lucknow , Yadav said, “We have finalised the visit, and I will be going to meet Mr Khan.”

Party’s Rampur district president Ajay Sagar confirmed to have received Yadav’s visit schedule. The party president will reach Rampur on October 8 and will meet Khan at his residence, Sagar said. Yadav will first come to Bareilly in a helicopter and then travel to Rampur in a car, he added.

There has been an undercurrent of differences between Akhilesh and Azam since the Rampur administration started lodging criminal cases against Khan in 2019. And th

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