By PTI
MAU: Derided by the BJP as a mascot of the criminal-and-mafia raj throughout Akhilesh Yadav’s earlier rule in Uttar Pradesh, jailed don-politician Mukhtar Ansari is out of the ballot fray this time and his son is as an alternative contesting because the opposition alliance candidate in his Mau seat.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and different BJP leaders have been taking Mukhtar Ansari’s title to assault the Samajwadi Party on the difficulty of legislation and order and the way the Yogi Adityanath authorities ran bulldozers on his properties.
Mukhtar Ansari’s 30-year-old son Abbas Ansari has been fielded within the election by the SP’s ally Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) of Om Prakash Rajbhar because the coalition nominee within the seat, the place voting will happen within the seventh and final part on March 7.
The BJP has nominated Ashok Singh within the seat, whereas the Bahujan Samaj Party has fielded its state president Bhim Rajbhar and the Congress Madhavendra Bahadur Singh.
Om Prakash Rajbhar had earlier declared Mukhtar Ansari as his social gathering’s candidate within the seat, however when the method of nomination started within the seventh part, Abbas Ansari filed his nomination papers as an alternative.
The BJP and BSP candidates have been making a problem out of Mukhtar Ansari’s felony picture and have appealed to folks to free Mau from the mafia.
But Abbas in dialog with journalists, quite the opposite, accuses the ruling BJP of defending mafias of a selected caste.
He alleged that below the safety of these in energy, Brajesh Singh, mentioned to be an aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, fired bullets at his father in 2001.
Abbas additionally quotes knowledge from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to assert that there was an enormous enhance within the crime fee in Uttar Pradesh within the final 5 years.
Though he’s the face, the power behind the son within the polls stays the daddy.
Abbas mentioned, “Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath while sitting on a constitutional post is intimidating the people of UP that if they do not vote, their homes will be bulldozed, but the land of martyrs saints Mau will not fall for the forgery and communal agenda.”
He claims in his ballot conferences that with the blessings of Mukhtar Ansari, Om Prakash Rajbhar and Akhilesh Yadav, he’s standing earlier than the folks.
Mukhtar Ansari, who has been in jail since 2005 in numerous felony instances, was delivered to Banda jail by the Uttar Pradesh authorities from Punjab after a courtroom battle in April final yr.
According to sources, Mukhtar Ansari can be keeping track of the son’s election from Banda jail and his outdated supporters have change into energetic in his native meeting seat.
However, this time Mukhtar Ansari’s elder brother Sibakatullah Ansari, who has joined the SP, and his BSP MP-brother Afzal Ansari are nowhere to be seen within the election marketing campaign in Mau space.
Afzal Ansari neither got here for any programme of his social gathering BSP nor his nephew Abbas.
BSP employee Achhe Lal claimed that Afzal Ansari stays loyal to the BSP and that he’s not protecting nicely lately.
Abbas is shifting round carrying a purple cap — the SP’s trademark headgear — and a yellow gamcha, worn by SBSP supporters.
Gulab Singh Yadav, a university instructor related to the SP, mentioned that it’s not about Abbas Ansari however the alliance of SBSP has strengthened Akhilesh Yadav in Purvanchal.
Campaign by rival events principally revolve round Mukhtar Ansari’s felony previous.
Ajay Prakash Singh ‘Manna’, brother of BJP candidate Ashok Singh, was shot useless at Ghazipur Tiraha in 2009 and the matter is pending within the excessive courtroom.
The BJP nominee is pleading with the voters that Mukhtar Ansari is committing crimes from jail after gaining energy for 25 years and now if his son additionally wins then crime incidents will rise.
At the identical time, he doesn’t neglect to say that the widespread man heaved a sigh of reduction by the bulldozer launched by Yogi Adityanath on the unlawful properties of those mafia and that is attainable provided that the BJP authorities is shaped.
Abbas is not any novice within the election as he has been dealing with the ballot administration of his jailed father within the final two elections.
He, nevertheless, had misplaced in 2017 state polls from neighbouring Ghoshi as a BSP nominee within the fingers of now Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan.
There have been many myths within the space relating to the Mau meeting constituency.
Since 1952 no person received from Mau for a second consecutive time, however Mukhtar Ansari broke the parable by profitable the seat 5 occasions in a row since 1996.
Manoj Rai, the district panchayat president of Mau who’s actively campaigning for the BJP candidate, advised PTI, “Everything has an end and this time Mukhtar Ansari himself broke his myth by staying out of the elections.”
There are about 5 lakh voters in Mau meeting constituency, together with 1.25 lakh Muslim voters, one lakh Dalit voters and 55,000 Rajbhars.
This is the primary election in Mau when just one Muslim candidate is within the fray from amongst main political events and this might of a bonus for Abbas Ansari.
