lucknow senior samajwadi party leader and state cabinet minister mohammed azam khan on saturday demanded a probe into the contracts awarded to congress chief sonia gandhis soninlaw robert vadra for the 2010 delhi commonwealth games and his deals with the real estate giant dlf vadra is the soninlaw of congress president sonia gandhi who is also the chairperson of the united progressive alliance upa government at the centre the development comes a couple of days after the samajwadi party president mulayam singh yadav dismissed the allegations levelled against vadra as unimportant in the absence of any concrete evidence of impropriety however azams statement is sure to leave the congress uncomfortable and the sp chief in a tight spot not only the manner in which the commonwealth games contracts were awarded but also the circumstances under which these contracts were virtually sublet to other companies the qualification and past experience of these companies in terms of executing similar contracts along with the quality of work done by these companies raise doubts azam said and added that it is surprising that a senior congress leader was sent to jail for his role in the alleged commonwealth games scam but still no probe was ordered in other irregularities people wonder why it took the centre so much time to initiate proceedings against the congress leader and why no one bothered to probe the allegations against the delhi government and others in the case he said reacting to the charges levelled by india against corruption iac activist arvind kejriwal on zakir hussain trust run by union law minister salman khurshid and his wife louise azam said that the up government is probing the matter the inquiry has been underway ever since the bahujan samaj party was in power in uttar pradesh and there was no reason in sight to stop the probe now azam said he also claimed that though the iac had provided strong evidence to back their allegations of irregularities committed by the trust the evidence produced by salman khurshid to counter the allegations were not as strong the iac backed their allegations by producing individuals before the media to back their claim that the poor have been fleeced in uttar pradesh but salman khrushids defence was a poor attempt he said that congress should have asked salman to resign but that will deprive the party of a muslim leader in uttar pradesh azam accused the muslim leaders in congress of serving their individual political interests and showing no concern for the community whatsoever while ghulam nabi azad calls himself a kashmiri first salman khurshid is more of a foreigner than an indian azam said at present the samajwadi party is supporting the upa government from outside sps support to the upa which was initially a mere formality gained significance in september last after the trinamool congress tmc withdrew its support the sp chief has been trying to strike a cord with the upa ever since the sp came to power in