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Why have been Rahul and Priyanka giving Mukhtar Ansari five-star amenities in a Punjab prison? BJP’s sharp questions

Lucknow: The case of giving VIP facility to gangster Mukhtar Ansari in Rupnagar prison has greater in opposition to the previous Congress executive of Punjab. Uttar Pradesh BJP on Wednesday requested Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as to what those amenities have been being given to Mukhtar Ansari. Punjab minister Harjot Singh Bains has accused the Congress executive of offering VIP amenities to Mukhtar Ansari.

The Uttar Pradesh BJP additionally alleged that Ansari used to be excited about immoral and unlawful actions from within the Punjab prison. BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi stated that the hand of Congress has all the time been with criminals and mafia. BJP chief Alka Rai wrote a number of letters to Priyanka Gandhi over the homicide of her husband Krishnanand Rai, asking her now not to protect a legal. Tripathi stated that the Uttar Pradesh executive had moved the Ultimate Courtroom to convey Ansari again, however the then Punjab executive adversarial it because it sought after to offer all amenities to Ansari. The BJP chief stated, “I wish to ask Rahul and Priyanka why they have been giving those amenities to Ansari. What did the Congress get in go back for offering those amenities to a gangster? The existing executive is proving that Ansari used to be excited about immoral and unlawful actions from within the prison.

Mukhtar will get 5 celebrity amenities in Punjab prison
Mrityunjay Kumar, media consultant to Uttar Pradesh Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath, additionally tweeted and requested the Congress why he used to be so connected to a gangster. Kumar claimed in a tweet, “Punjab executive stored Mukhtar Ansari for greater than two and a part years by means of registering a faux FIR. Mukhtar used to are living by myself as a VIP together with his spouse in a barrack of twenty other people. When the UP police attempted to convey him, the charges of attorneys have been additionally paid by means of the Congress to save lots of him. Why such a lot attachment to a gangster? Punjab Prison Minister Bains, throughout a dialogue within the state meeting on Tuesday, alleged that Ansari used to be stored in Rupnagar prison for 2 years and 3 months after a faux FIR used to be registered in opposition to him. He stated within the Area that he (Ansari) used to be given VIP facility and his spouse stayed with him. He stated that the amenities of a five-star resort got to him.

55 lakhs given to attorneys to save lots of Ansari
The minister had stated, it is a critical factor. I’m the prison minister and I got here to find out about a case during which gangster Mukhtar Ansari used to be stored in Rupnagar prison for 2 years and 3 months. He had stated that the Uttar Pradesh executive needed to pass to the Ultimate Courtroom to take Ansari into custody and the then executive had engaged senior attorneys to give protection to Ansari and he used to be paid a charge of Rs 11 lakh to seem within the case. The minister additionally claimed {that a} invoice of Rs 55 lakh used to be introduced as the charges of advocates.

Turn out that spouse used to be in prison with Ansari: Pratap Singh Bajwa
Denying those allegations, Congress chief Pratap Singh Bajwa requested Bains to end up that Ansari’s spouse used to be in that prison. He had stated, are you able to end up that his (Ansari’s) spouse used to be in prison. If you’ll’t end up it, you’ll have to surrender. It can be discussed that Mukhtar Ansari used to be remanded within the custody of Uttar Pradesh Police in April ultimate 12 months and is these days lodged in Banda Prison in Uttar Pradesh. Ansari used to be lodged in Rupnagar prison since January 2019 in a ransom case.