Sibakatullah Ansari

Sibakatullah Ansari or Sibagtulla Ansari is a Samajwadi Party politician from Mohammadabad in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. He is the elder brother in the well-known Ansari family which had a freedom-fighter role during India's independence movement, but has of late been known as the leading criminal-mafia family of Uttar Pradesh [cite news
title = Ansari Sr fighting for his brothers
author = Sunita Aron, Mau
publisher = Hindustan Times
url = http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=d4754feb-5933-4a2b-84c5-c0e1f4ef6adf
date = May 5, 2007
accessdate = 2007-05-05] .

Sibakatullah's younger brothers Afzal Ansari and Mukhtar Ansari of Ghazipur are currently in jail on charges of having murdered the earlier politician elected from this seat, Bharatiya Janata Party ganglord Krishnanand Rai. Afzal is a Samajwadi Party Member of Parliament in the national Lok Sabha from Ghazipur, and Mukhtar is a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Maunath Bhanjan. Mukhtar in particular, is known as the don of Mau, and has a long list of murder, extortion and kidnapping charges pending against him. Such is their perceived criminal clout in the region, that the Election Commission of India had the two brothers shifted from Ghazipur jail (Mohammadabad is in Ghazipur district), to a jail in Jhansi prior to the elections [cite news
title = Ansari brothers back in jail
author = Bharat Kumar, Varanasi
publisher = Hindustan Times
url = http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=ad75351d-856f-4af0-b4d0-323cdda34b41
date = May 9, 2007
accessdate = 2007-05-29] .

He has been viewed as apolitical earlier, but came out to fight the 2007 elections after his brothers were incarcerated. His name is also sometimes spelt Sibag Tullah.

Election 2005

In the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, 2005, Sibakatullah's elder brother son Mohammed Majid won from the Mohammadabad constituency [2005] , defeating Alka Rai, the widow of Krishnanand Rai, who had allegedly been killed by Sibakatullah's brothers. Both sides had been campaigning for "justice", Alka Rai saying that she wanted justice for the brutal street murder of Krishnanand Rai, and Sibagatullah stating, "Ham bhi insaaf mang rahe hain" (I also seek justice), suggesting that hisbrothers were paying the price for their "war against feudalforces" [cite news
title = In Ansari’s Mohammadabad, a fight for justice
author = Sanjay Singh
publisher = Indian Express
url = http://www.indianexpress.com/printerFriendly/29923.html
date = 2007-05-03
accessdate = 2007-05-29]

The election results in this constituency,for the top five candidates, are as follows:

ee also

* Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari
* Afzal Ansari
* Mukhtar Ansari

References