Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Afzal Ansari was on Monday disqualified from the Lok Sabha following his conviction by the MP/MLA Court, Ghazipur, in a kidnapping and murder case.
Gangster-turned-politician Afzal Ansari’s brother Mukhtar Ansari and represented the Ghazipur constituency. The brothers were booked under the UP Gangsters Act for the November 29, 2005 murder of then Ghazipur MLA Krishnanand Rai and the 1997 abduction and murder of Varanasi-based businessman Nand Kishore Rungta.
“Consequent to the conviction by the Court of Additional Sessions Judge, MP/MLA Court, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh in Special Hearing/980/2012, Afzal Ansari, Member of Lok Sabha representing Ghazipur Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh stands disqualified from membership .Statement of the Lok Sabha in terms of the provisions of Article 102(1)(e) of the Constitution of India read with Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 from the date of his conviction i.e. 29 April 2023. The Lok Sabha Secretariat read.
An MP/MLA court on Saturday convicted gangster-turned-politician Afzal Ansari in a kidnapping and murder case related to the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Krishnanand Rai and sentenced him to four years imprisonment. penalty of A fine of one lakh was also imposed on Afzal.
Security was beefed up ahead of the pronouncement of verdict by the MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur on Saturday against gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and BSP MP Afzal Ansari in the kidnapping and murder case.
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