Mukhtar Ansari

Mukhtar Ansari

Mukhtar Ansari is an Indian politician from Maunath Bhanjan or Mau in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Most recently he won the Mau seat in the Uttar Pradesh Elections, 2007 as an Independent.He is one among many such criminal-politicians in Uttar Pradesh.


Mukhtar was initially a member of the Makhanu Singh gang, which clashed with Sahib Singh's gang over Ghazipur's lucrative contract work mafia, estimated at more than Rs.200 crores a year.[1] Eventually, Makhanu Singh killed Sahib Singh, resulting in brutal reprisals.

Mukhtar Ansari's main mafia activity is in coal mining, railway construction and scrap disposal, Public Works construction, and the illicit liquor business. The local contract work mafia business, known as thekedari, was taken over from ganglord Tata Birender Singh when he was killed by Brajesh Singh. In 2001 Brajesh Singh ambushed Ansari's convoy on the Mau-Lucknow highway. In the shootout that followed, Mukhtar Ansari lost three of his key men and Brajesh Singh was critically injured and declared dead soon after. Mukhtar Ansari was 'crowned' the undisputed king of eastern U.P. (Purvanchal). However, a year later Brajesh Singh was spotted in the Mau-Ghazipur area and the feud allegedly still continues.Brajesh singh was recently arrested on 24 Jan 2008 at Bhubaneswar, Orissa , where he was living under a different identity as a builder and had been running a real estate business in the city.[1]

Politics

Mukhtar Ansari has been elected as an independent MLA consequently thrice from the Mau Sadar seat in Uttar Pradesh. He contested 2009 loksabha election from Varanasi seat on BSP ticket and lost to Murali Manohar Joshi of BJP by a low margin of 17211 votes (MUKHTAR ANSARI, BSP - 185911 votes & DR. MURLI MANOHAR JOSHI, BJP -203122 votes-/www.indian-elections.com). Later he was expelled from the BSP after the loksabha election. Now he has floated a new party in eastern Uttar Pradesh, "Quami Ekta Dal" & will contest 2012 assembly elections.

See also

'Jai Shri Ram

References


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