I am BJP's item girl, says Azam Khan

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan Wednesday said the ruling BJP invoked his name whenever elections are near, treating him like an item girl.

He was reacting to the registration Tuesday of the second FIR against him in a week, this time on a complaint by a pro-Ambedkar group for allegedly making defamatory remarks against the Dalit icon two years ago.

On October 17, Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh had filed an FIR against the controversial SP leader for allegedly threatening his daughters with acid attack.

"I am the item girl of the BJP, Azam Khan reacted, indirectly suggesting that his name helped the Bharatiya Janata Party attract voters.

They contest all the elections on my name. The last assembly election was fought on my name and the same is the case with the coming Lok Sabha elections," he added.

The present state of affairs is such that I do not remember how many cases have been filed against me and where, he told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Badaun.

I keep getting summons and warrants," he said.

In Lucknow, the BJP slammed Azam Khan over the indecent" item girl remark.

"Azam Khan has become mentally deranged. The days of politics of vote bank, appeasement and corruption, which he had been indulging in, are over," Uttar Pradesh BJP spokesperson Chandramohan said