Like his premonition, Atiq’s dying

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed would have in no way imagined that the phrases uttered by him casually all through an election rally in 2004 would turn into prophetic on Saturday night.

“Sadak ke kinare padal milab hum. Encounter hoi. Ya police maari, ya koi apni biradari ka sirfira. (I may be found lifeless by the roadside. I may be killed in an encounter each by police or by someone from the criminals’ tribe) — slain don Atiq Ahmed had talked about methodology once more in 2004 all through an election rally in Phulpur. He acquired the seat then as a Samajwadi Party candidate beneath the stewardship of the late Mulayam Singh Yadav.

How his phrases bought right here true on Saturday night when the gangster, handcuffed with brother Ashraf was lying lifeless in a pool of blood on the road in entrance of the native hospital, after being shot by three assailants.

Perhaps, the phrases spoken by the gangster in 2004 replicate the priority and the notion he had in regards to the unpredictability of his life owing to his acts of a grotesque crime. It was the time, when Atiq was having a reign of terror not solely in Prayagraj and adjoining districts nonetheless till the state capital Lucknow.

One-time SP MP and five-time MLA – as quickly as from SP, as quickly as from Apna Dal (S) and three-times independent– from Allahabad west seat, Atiq used to take enjoyment of having represented Phulpur in Lok Sabha like the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru who had moreover acquired his first Lok Sabha election from the similar seat. Not solely this, Atiq used to actually really feel happy with being lodged in Naini jail the place Pundit Nehru was moreover incarcerated all through the liberty battle.

“Pandit ji ki tarah hum Naini jail me bhi rahe hai. Woh kitab likhe wahan, hume apni historysheet ki wajah se jana pada tha (Like Nehru, I’ve moreover been to Naini jail. He wrote books there, I went on account of my historic previous sheet), he used to tell the scribes normally.

Atiq would categorical his concern for all instances infrequently to the media people. Once he talked about: “Sab ko pata hota hai anjaam kya hona hai. Kab tak taala ja sakta hai, yeh sab (contesting election) iski good day jaddojahad hai (We, as criminals, know what may be our future. Every day is a battle to postpone this ordeal and delay the inevitable).

LUCKNOW: Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed would have in no way imagined that the phrases uttered by him casually all through an election rally in 2004 would turn into prophetic on Saturday night.

“Sadak ke kinare padal milab hum. Encounter hoi. Ya police maari, ya koi apni biradari ka sirfira. (I may be found lifeless by the roadside. I may be killed in an encounter each by police or by someone from the criminals’ tribe) — slain don Atiq Ahmed had talked about methodology once more in 2004 all through an election rally in Phulpur. He acquired the seat then as a Samajwadi Party candidate beneath the stewardship of the late Mulayam Singh Yadav.

How his phrases bought right here true on Saturday night when the gangster, handcuffed with brother Ashraf was lying lifeless in a pool of blood on the road in entrance of the native hospital, after being shot by three assailants.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Perhaps, the phrases spoken by the gangster in 2004 replicate the priority and the notion he had in regards to the unpredictability of his life owing to his acts of a grotesque crime. It was the time, when Atiq was having a reign of terror not solely in Prayagraj and adjoining districts nonetheless till the state capital Lucknow.

One-time SP MP and five-time MLA – as quickly as from SP, as quickly as from Apna Dal (S) and three-times independent– from Allahabad west seat, Atiq used to take enjoyment of having represented Phulpur in Lok Sabha like the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru who had moreover acquired his first Lok Sabha election from the similar seat. Not solely this, Atiq used to actually really feel happy with being lodged in Naini jail the place Pundit Nehru was moreover incarcerated all through the liberty battle.

“Pandit ji ki tarah hum Naini jail me bhi rahe hai. Woh kitab likhe wahan, hume apni historysheet ki wajah se jana pada tha (Like Nehru, I’ve moreover been to Naini jail. He wrote books there, I went on account of my historic previous sheet), he used to tell the scribes normally.

Atiq would categorical his concern for all instances infrequently to the media people. Once he talked about: “Sab ko pata hota hai anjaam kya hona hai. Kab tak taala ja sakta hai, yeh sab (contesting election) iski good day jaddojahad hai (We, as criminals, know what may be our future. Every day is a battle to postpone this ordeal and delay the inevitable).