‘Azam Khan sahab, you listen…’: Jaya Prada hits back.

The BJP’s Jaya Prada on Monday made a sharp comeback after her former colleague and Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan made a derogatory comment against her during an election rally.

The veteran SP leader had stoked a controversy with an “underwear” jibe against Jaya Prada, who is fighting the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur parliamentary constituency against him.

“It isn’t new for me. You might remember that I was a candidate from his party in 2009 when no one supported me after he made comments against me. I’m a woman and I can’t even repeat what he said. I don’t know what I did to him that he is saying such things,” Jaya Prada was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

“He shouldn’t be allowed to contest elections. Because if this man wins, what will happen to democracy? There’ll be no place for women in society. Where will we go? Should I die, then you’ll be satisfied? Do you think I’ll get scared and leave Rampur? But I won’t leave,” she said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that the Election Commission should take cognisance of Khan’s “disgraceful and offensive” comments against Jayaprada, who was twice elected MP from Rampur on Samajwadi Party ticket.

Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj also sought SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s response on Khan’s comment against Jaya Prada.

Rampur goes to polls on April 23 along with 115 constituencies across 15 states in the third phase of the elections. Eight seats in the politically-crucial state of Uttar Pradesh went to polls in the first phase on April 11.