Ridiculously ridiculed by the BJP as a criminal and mafia raj mascot during Akhilesh Yadav’s previous rule in Uttar Pradesh, jailed don-politician Mukhtar Ansari is out of the fray this time with his son as the opposition alliance’s candidate instead. contesting elections. His seat. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other BJP leaders are taking the name of Mukhtar Ansari for attacking Samajwadi Party over law and order issue and how Yogi Adityanath government bulldozers on their properties.
Mukhtar Ansari’s 30-year-old son Abbas Ansari has been fielded by SP ally Om Prakash Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) as the alliance’s candidate, where polling will be held in the seventh and final phase. On March 7, BJP has fielded Ashok Singh from this seat, while Bahujan Samaj Party has fielded its state president Bhim Rajbhar and Congress Madhavendra Bahadur Singh.
Om Prakash Rajbhar had earlier declared Mukhtar Ansari as his party’s candidate for this seat, but when the process of nomination started in the seventh phase, Abbas Ansari filed nomination papers in his place. BJP and BSP are making issue of criminal image of candidate Mukhtar Ansari and have appealed to the people to free Mau from the mafia.
On the contrary, Abbas accuses the ruling BJP of protecting the mafia of a particular caste in a conversation with journalists. He alleged that Brajesh Singh, who is said to be an aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim under the protection of those in power, opened fire on his father in 2001.
Abbas quoted National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data to claim that there has been a huge increase in the crime rate in Uttar Pradesh in the last five years. Though he is the face, the force behind the son in the election remains the father.
Abbas said, ‘Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, sitting on a constitutional post, is intimidating the people of UP that if they do not vote, their houses will be bulldozed, but the land of martyr Sant Mau will not come under the forgery and communal agenda. He claimed in his election meetings that he is standing in front of the people with the blessings of Mukhtar Ansari, Om Prakash Rajbhar and Akhilesh Yadav. Mukhtar Ansari, who has been in jail since 2005 in various criminal cases, was handed over to Uttar Pradesh after a court battle in April last year. Banda jail was brought from Punjab by the government.
According to sources, Mukhtar Ansari is also eyeing the election of his son from Banda Jail and his old supporters have become active in his native assembly seat. However, this time Mukhtar Ansari’s elder brother Sibkatullah Ansari, who has joined the SP, and his BSP MP-brother Afzal Ansari are nowhere to be seen in the election campaign in Mau area.
Afzal Ansari neither attended any program of his party BSP nor did his nephew Abbas. BSP worker Achhe Lal claimed that Afzal Ansari is loyal to BSP and he is not well these days.
Abbas is walking around wearing a red cap – the SP’s trademark headgear – and a yellow gamchha worn by SBSP supporters. SP-affiliated college teacher Gulab Singh Yadav said that it is not about Abbas Ansari, but the alliance of SBSP has strengthened Akhilesh Yadav in Purvanchal.
The campaign of rival parties mostly revolves around Mukhtar Ansari’s criminal past. Ajay Prakash Singh ‘Manna’, brother of BJP candidate Ashok Singh, was shot dead at Ghazipur Tiraha in 2009 and the matter is pending in the High Court.
BJP candidates are pleading with voters that Mukhtar Ansari is committing crime from jail after securing power for 25 years and now if his son also wins then incidents of crime will increase. At the same time, he does not forget to mention that the common man breathed a sigh of relief from the bulldozers run by Yogi Adityanath on the illegal properties of these mafia and this is possible only when the BJP government is formed. Abbas is no newbie in elections as he has been handling the election management of his jailed father in the last two elections.
However, he lost to Bihar Governor Fagu Chauhan in the 2017 state elections as a BSP candidate from neighboring Ghoshi. There were many misconceptions in the area regarding the Mau assembly constituency.
No one won from Mau for the second time in a row since 1952, but Mukhtar Ansari broke this myth by winning the seat five times in a row since 1996. Mau’s district panchayat president Manoj Rai, who is actively campaigning for the BJP candidate, told PTI. “Everything is over and this time Mukhtar Ansari himself broke his myth by staying out of the election.” There are about five lakh voters in Mau assembly constituency, including 1.25 lakh Muslim voters, one lakh Dalit voters and 55,000 Rajbhars.
This is the first election in Mau when only one Muslim candidate from the major political parties is in the fray and it may benefit Abbas Ansari.
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