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Mukhtar Ansari

Indian politician (–)

Mukhtar Ansari, (30 June – 28 March ) was an Indian gangster, convicted murderer[3] and a politician, based in the state of Uttar Pradesh.[4][5][6] He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency five times, including twice as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.

Background and family

Ansari's paternal grandfather was Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, a surgeon, and an early president of the Indian National Congress in and of Muslim League in and [7][8] His father was Subhan Ullah Ansari, who was a leader of the Communist party.[9] Mukhtar Ansari's maternal grandfather was Mohammad Usman, who was a brigadier in the Indian Army; he never married and remained bachelor all his life.[10]

Ansari's family claim patrilineal lineage from the 11th century sufi saint Abdullah Ansari of Herat in Afghanistan, who was a direct descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[11]

Early life

In the early s, the government commissioned several development projects in the Poorvanchal area.

This resulted in the rise of organised gangs that competed with each other to grab the contracts for these projects.[12] Ansari was originally an alleged member of the Makhanu Singh gang. In the s, this gang clashed with another gang led by Sahib Singh over a plot of land in Saidpur, resulting in a series of violent incidents.[13] Brijesh Singh, an alleged member of Sahib Singh's gang, later formed his own gang and took over Ghazipur's contract work mafia in the s.

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Ansari's gang competed with him for the control of the ₹ crore contract business, which spanned areas such as coal mining, railway construction, scrap disposal, public works, and the liquor business. The gangs were also allegedly involved in running protection ("goonda tax") and extortion rackets, besides other criminal activities such as kidnapping.[13]

Early political career

Ansari entered politics around through a student union at Government PG College, Ghazipur, became an MLA in , and started challenging Brijesh Singh's dominance.

The two became the main gang rivals in the Poorvanchal region.[12] In , Singh allegedly ambushed Ansari's convoy. Three of Ansari's men were killed in the resulting shootout. Brijesh Singh was critically injured and presumed dead. [14] To counter Ansari's political influence, Singh supported the election campaign of the BJP leader Krishnanand Rai.

Rai defeated Mukhtar Ansari's brother and five-time MLA Afzal Ansari from Mohammadabad in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.[12] Mukhtar Ansari later claimed that Rai used his political office to award all the contracts to Brijesh Singh's gang, and the two planned to eliminate him.[13]

Ansari capitalised on the Muslim votebank to secure his electoral triumph during the Ghazipur-Mau area elections.

The amalgamation of crime, politics, and religion instigated several outbreaks of communal violence within the region. Consequently, Ansari faced charges of inciting violence following one such riot.[15] He was subsequently acquitted of these charges by the court.[16]

While Ansari was lodged in jail, Krishnanand Rai was shot dead in public along with his six aides after Special Task Force officers warned him of hired killers at the residence of Mukhtar Ansari.[17][18] The attackers fired over bullets from six AK rifles; 67 bullets were recovered from the seven bodies with the help of Ramashrey Giri.[12] Shashikant Rai, an important witness in the case, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in He had identified Ansari and Bajrangi's shooters, Angad Rai and Gora Rai, as the two gunmen who attacked Rai's convoy.

The police dismissed his death as a suicide.[19] Ansari's rival, Brijesh Singh, escaped from the Ghazipur-Mau area after Rai's murder. He was later arrested in in Orissa, and later entered politics as a member of the Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party.[20]

In , Ansari was booked for ordering an attack on Dharmendra Singh, a witness in a murder case.

However, later, the victim submitted an affidavit requesting the proceedings against Ansari be dropped.[21] On 27 September , Ansari was acquitted of murder.[22]

Bahujan Samaj Party

Ansari and his brother Afzal joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in The party allowed them in after they claimed that they had been framed in criminal cases for fighting against the "feudal system" and promised to refrain from participating in any crimes.

The BSP chief Mayawati portrayed Mukhtar Ansari as Robin Hood and called him "a messiah of the poor".[7][21] Ansari fought the Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi on the BSP ticket while still lodged in the jail.[23] He lost to BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi by a margin of 17, votes; he received % of the votes, compared to Joshi's %.[24][25]

Ansari and two other people were charged for the murder of Kapil Dev Singh in April The police also found that he had ordered the murder of a contractor, Ajay Prakash Singh in August [21] In , Ansari was booked for the murder of Ram Singh Maurya.

Maurya was a witness to the murder of Mannat Singh, a local contractor allegedly killed by Ansari's gang in [26]

The two brothers were expelled by the BSP in after the party realized that they were still involved in criminal activities. A raid at Ghazipur jail, where he was lodged, revealed that Mukhtar was living a luxurious life: items like air coolers and cooking equipment were found from his cell.

He was shifted to the Mathura prison soon after the raid.[21]

In , an FIR was logged by DSP Shailendra Singh against Mukhtar Ansari under POTA after recovering a light machine gun (LMG) from his premises. DSP Shailendra Singh was later implicated in the fake case of vandalism for recommending the arrest after falling out with the then ruling Samajwadi Party government led by Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh.

The former DSP was exonerated from fake case by the Yogi Adithyanath Government in

Quami Ekta Dal

After being expelled from the BSP and being rejected by other political parties, the three Ansari brothers (Mukhtar, Afzal, and Sibkatillah) formed their own political party called the Quami Ekta Dal (QED), in Earlier, Mukhtar had launched an outfit called the Hindu Muslim Ekta Party, which was merged with QED.[27] In , he was charged under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act for being a member of an organised crime syndicate.[28]

In March , Ansari announced that he would contest the Lok Sabha elections against Narendra Modi from Varanasi and lost there with by a huge margin, besides contesting from Ghosi.[29] However, in April, he withdrew his candidature stating that he wanted to prevent the division of "secular votes".[30]

Back in the BSP

On 26 January , Ansari rejoined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) before the Uttar Pradesh Legislative elections.

There was widespread speculation about the Ansari brothers joining the Samajwadi party a couple of months before. BSP chief Mayawati defended his entry into the party, stating that the criminal charges against Ansari had not been proven, and that the party gives people a chance to reform themselves.[31]

Eventually, Ansari merged his Quami Ekta Dal with the BSP in and won the state elections as a BSP candidate from the Mau assembly seat.

He defeated his nearest rival, Mahendra Rajbhar of the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (a BJP ally) by votes.[32]

Positions held

Ansari was elected five times as MLA from the Mau constituency.[33]

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 MLA (1st term) from MauBSP
2. MLA (2nd term) from MauIND
3. MLA (3rd term) from MauIND
4. MLA (4th term) from MauQED
5. MLA (5th term) from MauBSP

Criminal cases

After inaugurating a cricket tournament in , MLA Krishnanand Rai's cavalcade was ambushed while he was returning home.

&#;Krishnanand Rai and six of his aides were killed by AK bullet fires.[34] Ansari was acquitted of the murder in [35]

Ansari was in jail from in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab states for another criminal case.

Biography of albert einstein Mukhtar Ansari was awarded a life sentence on 13 March in connection with a fake arms licence case. New Delhi: Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died after suffering a cardiac arrest Thursday evening. Stay informed with access to our award-winning journalism. Ansari's family claim patrilineal lineage from the 11th century sufi saint Abdullah Ansari of Herat in Afghanistan, who was a direct descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari , a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Mukhtar Ansari was awarded a life sentence on 13 March in connection with a fake arms licence case.[36]

Death

Ansari died of a heart attack on 28 March, at the age of An autopsy carried out by the panel of doctors from AIIMS Delhi over his body confirmed that Ansari died of a heart attack.[37][38][39] His son, Umar Ansari, has claimed that his father was given a slow poison that led to the heart attack.[40] 10 days prior to his death, on 19 March , Mukhtar Ansari reported to the Barabanki Court that he was experiencing continuous pain in his nerves and limbs.

He attributed this discomfort to some poisonous substance that he believed had been introduced into his food.[41]The Uttar Pradesh government ordered a three-member magisterial investigation into the allegations.

Reaction

Krishnanand Rai's son, Piyush Rai, in an interview, stated "God has considered his fate in the month of Ramzan," and termed Mukhtar Ansari a "tyrant."[42]Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, has urged that a judge of the Supreme Court look into Mukhtar Ansari's death.[43]

See also

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