Muzaffarnagar: Former member of Rajya Sabha Amir Alam Khan and his son Nawazish Alam Khan announced that they will join the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD). They hope to revive their political fortunes after the Jats and Muslims recently came together and agreed to take back cases of five riot-hit villages that were lodged during the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013.
Speaking to TOI, Amir Alam said, "It is my 'ghar wapsi'. Now, I hope to work to unite the Jats and the Muslims again."
With a complete rout in 2014 general elections and 2017 UP elections, RLD is trying to revive itself in west UP.
Amir Alam Khan was a Samajwadi Party member of Parliament (MP) in the Upper House from 2006 to 2010. He left the SP and joined BSP in 2016. He was minister of transport in the BSP government in Uttar Pradesh. His son Nawazish Alam Khan was an MLA from Budhana from 2012 to 2017. Soon after the Muzaffarnagar riots, the two had left the SP and joined BSP.
Nawazish Alam said, "After the 2013 riots, there was a big gap between the Jats and the Muslims, and we hope to reunite the two communities."
Nawazish Alam was also present in the meeting between Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and members of the two communities on December 31 for settlements riots victims' cases of five villages in Muzaffarnagar.
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