NEW DELHI: Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan has dismissed the demand to announce a Muslim Deputy Chief Minister in Uttar Pradesh as a symbolic, constitutionally meaningless exercise.
In a candid interview with IANS, the veteran politician argued that the position of Deputy CM holds no real authority and therefore does not serve substantive political empowerment for minorities.
Responding to a question on whether SP chief Akhilesh Yadav should promise a Muslim Deputy CM ahead of the next UP Assembly elections 2027, Khan said that the Constitution doesn’t recognise such a post; it’s merely symbolic.