Azamgarh (UP), September 04: Noted film and theatre personality Shabana Azmi is distressed that her native place is in news for all the wrong reasons.
Presently on a visit to her native house ‘fateh-e-manzil’ in Mizwa village here, the birth place of her late father and acclaimed ‘shayar’ Kaifi Azmi, Shabana said branding Azamgarh as a terror hub was unfair .
“Azamgarh is the birth place of people like author Rahul Sanskritayan, scholar Allama Shibli Nomani and poet Kaifi Azmi, who were the living examples of communal amity and brotherhood…maligning their hometown Azamgarh as ‘atankgarh’ (terror hub) is saddening,” Azmi told PTI today.
The population of Azamgarh is 50 lakh of which a few may have adopted the wrong path like in any other place, but branding the whole town or district as “atankgarh” is not fair, the former Rajya Sabha member said.
–PTI