Lucknow, April 7 (IANS) Samajwadi Get together (SP) Chief Akhilesh Yadav will go to gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s ancestral home in Mohammadabad city of Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district on Sunday to supply condolences to his household.
Yadav’s go to comes days after leaders of assorted political events visited the Ansari house. Mukhtar Ansar died on March 28.
One of many first political leaders to go to the Ansari household was Asaduddin Owaisi, head of All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM).
The Samajwadi Get together, thereafter, rushed get together chief and former Lok Sabha MP Dharmendra Yadav and Rajya Sabha MP Balram Yadav to Mohammadabad in Ghazipur. Each the leaders supplied flowers on the grave of Mukhtari Ansari on the Kalibagh graveyard and visited his residence to supply their condolences to the household.
SP chief Ram Sudhakar Yadav, on Saturday, put in a hoarding of Mukhtar Ansari close to the get together’s state unit workplace, urging folks to not have fun Eid and observe two-minute silence for Mukhtar Ansari. Later the native police eliminated the hoarding.
Through the go to, Akhilesh Yadav will meet Mukhtar’s brothers Sibgatullah Ansari, who’s a former SP MLA and sitting BSP MP from Ghazipur Lok Sabha seat and Afzal Ansari, who’s contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha election on the SP ticket. Yadav may even meet Mukhtar’s nephew and SP’s Mohammadabad MLA Suhaib Ansari, son Umar Ansari and different family members.
In 2016, Akhilesh Yadav had opposed his uncle Shivpal Yadav’s transfer to merge the Quami Ekta Dal (QED) launched by Ansari within the Samajwadi Get together.
Conscious that Ansari’s demise would forged a shadow on the fortune of the political events within the constituencies dominated by Muslims within the Lok Sabha election, the SP deliberate his go to to the Ansari residence.
Mukhtar wielded affect over Muslim votes in Ghazipur, Mau, Azamgarh and Varanasi. Muslims account for 20 per cent of the voters within the Lok Sabha seats in these districts.
Although Mukhtar isn’t any extra, the domination of his household over Muslim voters within the area is more likely to proceed. His brother Afzal Ansari, who received the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on a BSP ticket, is contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on the Samajwadi Get together (SP) ticket.
Ansari’s son Abbas Ansari secured victory on the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Get together (SBSP) ticket from the Mau Meeting seat within the 2022 Meeting election whereas his nephew Suhaib Ansari is SP MLA from Mohammadabad seat.
A BJP spokesman mentioned, “The SP leaders need to encash the sympathy for Mukhtar Ansari amongst Muslims within the Lok Sabha elections. They’re additionally making an attempt to get the help of the native Muslim leaders. Former BSP MLA Shah Alam aka Guddu Jamali has already joined SP.”
Curiously, conscious of the affect of Ansaris in east UP, BSP chief Mayawati was one of many first leaders to demand a high-level investigation into Mukhtar’s demise. She mentioned the Ansari household had expressed persistent apprehensions and levelled severe allegations about his demise in jail.
Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee president Ajay Rai has additionally sought a probe into the demise of Ansari.
Mukhtar Ansari, curiously, was accused of the killing of Awadhesh Rai, brother of Ajay Rai.
–IANS
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