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Azam Khan accused Salman Khurshid for fetching conspiracy

New York: Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan, who was briefly detained at a US airport recently, has accused External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid of hatching a ‘conspiracy’ to defame him outside India.

Insisting that his detention should not be compared to that of Kalam, Shah Rukh, Indian Ambassador to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri or the then Indian envoy to the US Meera Shankar, Khan alleged, “It was a conspiracy because I am a powerful non-Congress Muslim leader of India and he (Khurshid) had cleverly planned with the help of the Department of Homeland Security using his clout as an Indian Cabinet Minister.

“My detention at the Boston Logan International can’t be treated on par with insults heaped on either former President APJ Abdul Kalam or actor Shah Rukh Khan as I was targeted by Khurshid and his coterie who had no guts to oppose me on Indian soil,” he said before boarding his flight to India.

“When I was in detention inside the airport, the Consulate General of India’s protocol officers who had come to receive us acted like total strangers and silent spectators. I guess they must have got some instructions from their superiors to stay away,” Khan alleged.

“The Chief Minister is with me on this and he is very upset over the treatment meted out to me. Our decision to boycott both the Harvard University talk and the reception to be hosted by the Consul General was very much correct and he took a correct and appropriate decision to convey our anger and agony,” he said.

Khan said the Chief Minister waited at the airport till he came out.

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