'Can Make Tea, Play Drums, Qualified To Be PM,' Jibes Azam Khan

'Can Make Tea, Play Drums, Qualified To Be PM,' Jibes Azam Khan
All India | Press Trust of India | Updated: October 18, 2016 23:52 IST
  
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Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan says he is a "fit candidate" for prime minister.
Saharanpur:  He may be a strident critic of Narendra Modi but Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan says he shares many of his qualities like "making tea", "dressing properly" and "playing drums" and is a "fit candidate" for prime minister.

"I have all the qualities of becoming Prime Minister. I can make tea, play the drum, cook food and I wear proper clothes. Besides, I am not all that bad looking or am I corrupt," he said at an e-rickshaw distribution function in Saharanpur.

Mr Khan took jibes at PM Modi for his "chaiwala" beginnings, his "monogrammed suit" and his drum playing episodes in Japan and



Tanzania.

"If I become Prime Minister, I assure you, I will deposit R
s.
 20 lakh in accounts of 130 crore people within six months. I am not like those who don't keep their promises," he said in an apparent dig at PM Modi over his poll promise of depositing R
s.
 15 lakh each in the account of every Indian.

"Nobody would have been poor if the money was deposited. People would not have to come here to take e-rickshaws to earn a livelihood but would have been 'crore-patis' (millionaires)," he said.

"A rikshaw puller always faces difficulty in getting his daughter married because the probable groom's family rejects the proposal because of his social status and work," he claimed.

The UP government is replacing cycle-rickshaws with e-rickshaws to give them the opportunity to earn better and regain their self-respect, he said.

Taking further potshots at PM Modi, Mr Khan said, "At a time when tension rages at the border and our poor are going hungry, he (Modi) sends 'shawls' to Pakistan and gets in return boxes of mangoes. The king is happy so is Pakistan. He will take advantage of this in the 2017 polls (in UP)." Attacking the media, he said it was better to watch entertainment channels than news channels.