He was responding to charges levelled against him by Congress MLA Kazim Ali, the scion of the erstwhile royal family of Rampur, who has said that the minister was out to grab 'enemy property' for his private trust in the district.
Attacking Ali, the Samajwadi Party minister said that the atrocities committed by his forebears during their rule was still spoken about in the area.
"There is around 450 bighas under enemy property land which Azam wants to include in Maulana Ali Jauhar University, run by his trust," Ali had said.
Ali claims to have found out about the minister's alleged move to acquire the said property through an RTI query and has demanded an inquiry into the matter.
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