Akhilesh Yadav to boycott Harvard lecture after Azam Khan's detention at US ... - Hindustan Times

In what appears to be a reaction to his minister Azam Khan's detention at the Boston airport, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday decided to boycott the Harvard lecture he was invited to deliver. The Harvard university website displayed, "Due to unforeseen circumstances, today's Harvard without Borders: Mapping the Kumbh Mela panel speaker will be Shri Jawed Usmani (Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh Government-India) in place of Shri Akhilesh Yadav (Honorable Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh) and Shri Mohammed Azam Khan (Honorable Chief Minister of Urban Development, Uttar Pradesh)." Earlier today, the Samajwadi Party sought an apology from the US for the "insult" caused by the questioning of UP minister Azam Khan at the Logan International Airport in Boston. India protests frisking of Azam Khan at US airport "We demand an apology from the US on the issue as Indians cannot be insulted like this after being invited," senior SP leader Naresh Agarwal told reporters in New Delhi. Khan, a senior leader of the ruling SP in UP and also the urban development minister of the state, was detained for about 10 minutes at the Boston airport for "further questioning" after he landed in a scheduled British Airways flight from India. In protest, Khan, who was accompanying the UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to deliver a lecture in Harvard University on the recently held Mahakumbh Mela at Allahabad, has decided to come back after a short stay. External affairs ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said India has asked its Embassy in Washington to take up the matter appropriately with the US authorities. "We have received reports from our Consulate General in New York on this incident. We have asked our embassy in Washington to take up the matter appropriately with the US authorities," Akbaruddin told reporters in Kazakhstan capital Almaty. via Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNH0yrsySQ8Anbze4heP2HXiZBC6EQ&url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Akhilesh-Yadav-to-boycott-Harvard-lecture-after-Azam-Khan-s-detention-at-US-airport/Article1-1050935.aspx

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