Khan claimed that even his Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav will support his candidature for the Prime Minister's post. "When the time comes, Mulayam Singh will propose my name," he said.
When reporters asked Khan about posters being put up in Lucknow demanding his elevation to the post of deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, he said, "You are insulting me. I want to be become the Prime Minister and I deserve to hold the post. That's why I have removed posters of me becoming deputy chief minister."
On the CBI raids at the office of Rajinder Kumar, the Principal Secretary of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Khan said, "The central government and the BJP have shown disrespect to political beliefs... Everyone knows that it's a bias action... I think there should not be raids at office of any chief minister of the country without prior permission.
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