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Addressing reporters in Rampur, Yadav said, "Once the Samajwadi Party is voted back to power in UP, all the cases lodged against senior SP leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan will be withdrawn. "The relationship with Azam Khan is that of family and not of politics," the statement quoted him as having said. Samajwadi Party workers accorded him warm welcome at various places from Lucknow to Bareilly and Rampur, the party statement said. Hence he is afraid and indulging in unrestrained gossip against the government, while siding with Azam Khan." On Friday, before leaving for Rampur, Yadav had said in Sitapur, "Our party leader MP Azam Khan been been targeted by the government..