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For the pre-partition leader, see Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari.

Mukhtar Ansari
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Mukhtar Ansari
Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
October 1996 – March 2022
Preceded byNaseem
Succeeded byAbbas Ansari
ConstituencyMau
Personal details
Born (1963-06-30) 30 June 1963 (age 61)
Yusufpur, Uttar Pradesh, India[1]
Political partySuheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (11 Feb 2022-present)
Other political
affiliations		Quami Ekta Dal
Height2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
Spouse
Afsa Ansari
​
(m. 1989)​
RelationsSibgatullah Ansari (brother)
Afzal Ansari (brother)
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari (grandfather)
Hamid Ansari (cousin)
Brigadier Mohammad Usman (grandfather Nana)
Children2 (including Abbas Ansari)
Parent
  • Subhanullah Ansari (father)
ResidenceUttar Pradesh
Alma materPG College Ghazipur [2]
Professionpolitician

Mukhtar Ansari (born 30 June 1963) is an Indian gangster and politician from Uttar Pradesh.[3] He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency five times, including twice as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.

Early life

Mukhtar Ansari is the grandson of Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, an early president of the Indian National Congress.[4][5]

In the early 1970s, the government commissioned several development projects in the backward Poorvanchal area. This resulted in the rise of organised gangs that competed with each other to grab the contracts for these projects.[6] Mukhtar Ansari was originally an alleged member of the Makhanu Singh gang. In the 1980s, this gang clashed with another gang led by Sahib Singh, over a plot of land in Saidpur, resulting in a series of violent incidents.[7] 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 1990s. Ansari's gang competed with him for the control of the ₹ 100 crore contract business, which spanned areas such as coal mining, railway construction, scrap disposal, public works, and liquor business. The gangs were also allegedly involved in running protection ("goonda tax") and extortion rackets, besides other criminal activities such as kidnapping.[7]

Early political career

By the early 1990s, Mukhtar Ansari was well known for his alleged criminal activities, especially in the districts of Mau, Ghazipur, Varanasi and Jaunpur. He entered politics around 1995 through student union in Banaras Hindu University, became an MLA in 1996, and started challenging Brijesh Singh's dominance. The two became the main gang rivals in the Poorvanchal region.[6] In 2002, 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. Ansari became the undisputed gang leader in Poorvanchal. However, Brijesh Singh was later found to be alive, and the feud resumed. 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 the Mohammadabad in the 2002 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.[6] 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.[7]

Ansari used the Muslim votebank to ensure his victory during the elections in the Ghazipur-Mau area. The mix of crime, politics, and religion led to several instances of communal violence in the region. After one such riot, Mukhtar Ansari was arrested on the charge of inciting people towards violence.[7] However he was acquitted by the Court in this matter.

While Ansari was lodged in the jail, Krishnanand Rai was shot dead in public along with his six aides. The attackers fired over 400 bullets from six AK-47 rifles; 67 bullets were recovered from the seven bodies with the help of Ramashrey Giri.[6] Shashikant Rai, an important witness in the case, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in 2006. He had identified Ansari and Bajrangi's shooters Angad Rai and Gora Rai as the two of the gunmen who attacked Rai's convoy. The police dismissed his death as a suicide.[8] Ansari's rival Brijesh Singh escaped from the Ghazipur-Mau area after Rai's murder. He was later arrested in 2008, in Orissa, and later entered politics as a member of the Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party.[9]

In 2008, 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 to be dropped.[10] On 27 September 2017, Ansari was acquitted of murder.[11]

On 9 January 2018, Ansari and his wife suffered heart attacks while in a prison.[12]

Bahujan Samaj Party

Mukhtar Ansari and his brother Afzal joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 2007. The party allowed them in, after they claimed that they had been falsely 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".[4][10] Ansari fought the 2009 Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi on a BSP ticket, while still lodged in the jail.[13] He lost to BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi by a margin of 17,211 votes; he received 27.94% of the votes, compared to Joshi's 30.52%.[14][15]

Mukhtar Ansari and two other persons were charge-sheeted for the murder of Kapil Dev Singh in April 2009. The police also found that he had ordered the murder of a contractor Ajay Prakash Singh in August 2009.[10] In 2010, 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 2009.[16]

The two brothers were expelled by BSP in 2010 after the party realized that they were still involved in criminal activities. A raid in Ghazipur jail, where he was lodged, had 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.[10]

In 2004 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 due to fall out with the then ruling Samajwadi Party government led by Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh. Ex DSP was exonerated from fake case by Yogi Adithyanath Government in 2021

Quami Ekta Dal

After being expelled from 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 2010. Earlier, Mukhtar had launched an outfit called the Hindu Muslim Ekta Party, which was merged with QED.[17] In 2012, he was charged under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act for being a member of an organised crime syndicate.[18]

In March 2014, Ansari announced that he will contest the 2014 Lok Sabha elections against Narendra Modi from Varanasi and lost there with huge difference, besides contesting from Ghosi.[19] However, in April, he withdrew his candidature stating that he wanted to prevent division of "secular votes".[20]

Back in BSP

On 26 January 2016, Ansari rejoined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), before the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative elections. There was widespread speculation about the Ansari brothers joining Samajwadi party a couple of months ago. 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.[21]

Eventually, Ansari merged his Quami Ekta Dal with BSP in 2017, and won the state elections as a BSP candidate from the Mau assembly seat. He defeated his nearest rival Mahendra Rajbhar of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (a BJP ally) by 6464 votes.[22]

Positions held

Mukhtar Ansari has been elected 5 times as MLA from Mau constituency.[23]

# From To Position Party
1. 1996 2002 MLA (1st term) from Mau BSP
2. 2002 2007 MLA (2nd term) from Mau IND
3. 2007 2012 MLA (3rd term) from Mau IND
4. 2012 2017 MLA (4th term) from Mau QED
5. 2017 2022 MLA (5th term) from Mau BSP

See also

References

  1. ^ "Member Profile". official website of Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Mukhtar Ansari(Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP)):Constituency- MAU(MAU) - Affidavit Information of Candidate".
  3. ^ Outlook - Volume 44, Issues 8-16, p. 49 "cop Shailendra Singh made headlines when he slapped POTA on gangster - turned - MLA Mukhtar Ansari"
  4. ^ a b Patrick French (2011). India: A Portrait. Knopf Doubleday. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-307-59664-2.
  5. ^ "Robinhoods who scare world's most-wanted Dawood Ibrahim". Daily Bhaskar. 18 July 2012.
  6. ^ a b c d Alka Pande (9 December 2005). "A Slice Of Sicily". Outlook.
  7. ^ a b c d Aman Sethi (17–30 December 2005). "Rule of the outlaw". Frontline. 22 (26).
  8. ^ "Key witness's murder to weaken case against Ansari, Bajrangi". The Times of India. 23 March 2010.
  9. ^ "Little known party fields mafia don Brijesh Singh". The Times of India. 1 January 2012.
  10. ^ a b c d "Maya's party expels 'messiah of poor' Mukhtar Ansari, his brother". Indian Express. 17 April 2010.
  11. ^ "Uttar Pradesh MLA Mukhtar Ansari acquitted in eight-year-old murder case".
  12. ^ "Mukhtar Ansari, UP MLA suffers heart attack in jail". India Today. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  13. ^ "BSP fields Mukhtar Ansari from Varanasi". The Hindu. 17 February 2009.
  14. ^ Iftikhar Gilani (19 March 2014). "Varanasi won't be a walk through for Narendra Modi". DNA.
  15. ^ "General Elections Results, Apr 2009: Varanasi". ZillR ElectionPlans.com. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  16. ^ "Mukhtar Ansari booked in murder case". Indian Express. 21 March 2010.
  17. ^ "Ansaris launch own political outfit, will contest polls". The Indian Express. 9 August 2010.
  18. ^ "UP MLA Mukhtar Ansari charged under MCOCA". Zee News. 3 March 2012.
  19. ^ "Mukhtar to challenge Modi in Varanasi". The Times of India. 13 March 2014.
  20. ^ "Mukhtar Ansari opts out of contest against Narendra Modi in Varanasi". India Today. 10 April 2014.
  21. ^ "Mukhtar Ansari joins Mayawati's BSP". Financial Express. 26 January 2017.
  22. ^ "UP election 2017: Mukhtar Ansari wins on BSP ticket, son and brother lose". Hindustan Times. 12 March 2017.
  23. ^ "Mau Assembly Constituency elections". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
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