Mukhtar Ansari
| Mukhtar Ansari | |
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| मुख़्तार अंसारी | |
| Member, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 1996 - 2002, 2002 - 2012, 2012 - 2017, 2017 – present |
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| Constituency | Mau |
| Personal details | |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Political party | Bahujan Samaj Party (1996, 2007-2010, 2017-present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Quami Ekta Dal |
| Relations | Sibakatullah Ansari and Afzal Ansari (brothers) |
| Children |
Abbas Ansari Umar Ansari |
Mukhtar Ansari is an Indian mafia-don turned politician from Uttar Pradesh. He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency a record five times. He was the prime accused in the Krishnanand Rai murder case among other crimes, and has pleaded not guilty.
Ansari won his first Assembly election as a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and the next two as an independent. In 2007, he joined BSP and unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election. After BSP expelled him in 2010 for criminal activities, he formed his own party Quami Ekta Dal with his brothers. He won from the Mau seat in the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election, 2012. He rejoined BSP in 2017, before the state elections.
Mukhtar Ansari is the grandson of Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, an early president of the Indian National Congress.
In the early 1970s, the government commissioned several development projects in the backward Poorvanchal area. This resulted in the rise of organised gangs that competed with each other to grab the contracts for these projects. Mukhtar Ansari was originally a member of the Makhanu Singh gang. In the 1980s, this gang clashed with another gang led by Sahib Singh, over a plot of land in Saidpur, resulting in a series of violent incidents. Brijesh Singh, a member of Sahib Singh's gang, later formed his own gang and took over Ghazipur's contract work mafia in the 1990s. Ansari's gang competed with him for the control of the ₹ 100 crore contract business, which spanned areas such as coal mining, railway construction, scrap disposal, public works and liquor business. The gangs were also involved in running protection ("goonda tax") and extortion rackets, besides other criminal activities such as kidnapping.
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