Via PTI
MAU: Derided via the BJP as a mascot of the criminal-and-mafia raj all through 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 House Minister Amit Shah and different BJP leaders had been taking Mukhtar Ansari’s identify to assault the Samajwadi Birthday celebration at the factor of legislation and order and the way the Yogi Adityanath executive ran bulldozers on his houses.
Mukhtar Ansari’s 30-year-old son Abbas Ansari has been fielded within the election via the SP’s best friend Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Birthday celebration (SBSP) of Om Prakash Rajbhar because the coalition nominee within the seat, the place vote casting will happen within the 7th and closing section on March 7.
The BJP has nominated Ashok Singh within the seat, whilst the Bahujan Samaj Birthday celebration has fielded its state president Bhim Rajbhar and the Congress Madhavendra Bahadur Singh.
Om Prakash Rajbhar had previous declared Mukhtar Ansari as his birthday celebration’s candidate within the seat, but if the method of nomination started within the 7th section, Abbas Ansari filed his nomination papers as an alternative.
The BJP and BSP applicants had been making a topic out of Mukhtar Ansari’s crook symbol and feature appealed to folks to loose Mau from the mafia.
However Abbas in dialog with reporters, to the contrary, accuses the ruling BJP of shielding mafias of a selected caste.
He alleged that below the safety of the ones in energy, Brajesh Singh, mentioned to be an aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, fired bullets at his father in 2001.
Abbas additionally quotes information from the Nationwide Crime Data Bureau (NCRB) to assert that there was an enormous build up within the crime price in Uttar Pradesh within the closing 5 years.
Regardless that he’s the face, the drive in the back of the son within the polls stays the daddy.
Abbas mentioned, “Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath whilst sitting on a constitutional put up is intimidating the folks of UP that if they don’t vote, their houses will probably be bulldozed, however the land of martyrs saints Mau is not going to fall for the forgery and communal schedule.”
He claims in his ballot conferences that with the blessings of Mukhtar Ansari, Om Prakash Rajbhar and Akhilesh Yadav, he’s status ahead of the folks.
Mukhtar Ansari, who has been in prison since 2005 in quite a lot of crook instances, was once delivered to Banda prison via the Uttar Pradesh executive from Punjab after a courtroom fight in April closing yr.
Consistent with resources, Mukhtar Ansari may be keeping track of the son’s election from Banda prison and his outdated supporters have turn out to be energetic in his local meeting seat.
Then again, 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 noticed within the election marketing campaign in Mau house.
Afzal Ansari neither got here for any programme of his birthday celebration BSP nor his nephew Abbas.
BSP employee Achhe Lal claimed that Afzal Ansari stays unswerving to the BSP and that he’s no longer conserving smartly at the moment.
Abbas is shifting round dressed in a pink cap — the SP’s trademark headgear — and a yellow gamcha, worn via SBSP supporters.
Gulab Singh Yadav, a school instructor related to the SP, mentioned that it isn’t about Abbas Ansari however the alliance of SBSP has reinforced Akhilesh Yadav in Purvanchal.
Marketing campaign via rival events most commonly revolve round Mukhtar Ansari’s crook previous.
Ajay Prakash Singh ‘Manna’, brother of BJP candidate Ashok Singh, was once shot useless at Ghazipur Tiraha in 2009 and the topic is pending within the top courtroom.
The BJP nominee is pleading with the citizens that Mukhtar Ansari is committing crimes from prison after gaining energy for 25 years and now if his son additionally wins then crime incidents will upward thrust.
On the similar time, he does no longer overlook to say that the average guy heaved a sigh of aid via the bulldozer introduced via Yogi Adityanath at the unlawful houses of those mafia and that is conceivable provided that the BJP executive is shaped.
Abbas is not any beginner within the election as he has been dealing with the ballot control of his jailed father within the closing two elections.
He, on the other hand, 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 house in regards to the Mau meeting constituency.
Since 1952 no one received from Mau for a 2nd consecutive time, however Mukhtar Ansari broke the parable via successful 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, “The whole thing has an finish and this time Mukhtar Ansari himself broke his fable via staying out of the elections.”
There are about 5 lakh citizens in Mau meeting constituency, together with 1.25 lakh Muslim citizens, one lakh Dalit citizens and 55,000 Rajbhars.
That is the primary election in Mau when just one Muslim candidate is within the fray from amongst main political events and this would of a bonus for Abbas Ansari.