Mukhtar Ansari is an Indian politician and powerful person. He is considered one of the influential personalities of Eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal). Many criminal cases are registered against him including the murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai.
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Mukhtar Ansari was born on Sunday, 30 June 1963 (age 60 years; as in 2023) in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. He started his political career by contesting student council elections at the Post Graduate Ghazipur College, Rambadh, where he earned a BA degree in 1984. After completing his graduation, he became a strong leader in Purvanchal.
An old picture of Mukhtar Ansari
Physical Appearance
Height (approx): 6′ 2″
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
family and caste
Mukhtar Ansari belongs to a prominent Sunni Muslim family of Ghazipur.
parents and siblings
He was born to Subhanullah Ansari (father) and Begum Rabia (mother).
Mukhtar Ansari’s father Subhanullah Ansari
His mother died in December 2018. His grandfather, Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was an Indian freedom fighter and former president of the Indian National Congress and Muslim League.
Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari Postal Stamp
He has two elder brothers, Sibkatullah Ansari who was a Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from the Mohammadabad constituency, and Afzal Ansari who is a Lok Sabha member from Ghazipur.
Mukhtar Ansari with his brother Sibkatullah Ansari
Relationships, wife and children
On 15 October 1989, he married Afsa Ansari.
Mukhtar Ansari with his wife Afsa Ansari
They have two sons – Abbas Ansari and Omar Ansari. His elder son, Abbas Ansari is an excellent shooter and a gold medalist in national level shooting. Abbas is a management graduate. Abbas had contested the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections from Ghosi on a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket. Ansari’s youngest son Omar is also active in politics.
Mukhtar Ansari with his sons
Address
Tailor Tola, Town-Yusufpur, Post-Mohammedabad, District-Ghazipur
preliminary offense
Mukhtar Ansari entered the world of crime in 1988 when he murdered Sachchidanand Rai, a local Mandi Parishad contractor in Ghazipur. Around the same time, his name also came up in the murder of Rajendra Singh in Varanasi. Rajendra was a police constable and brother of Tribhuvan Singh, a close aide of Brijesh Singh.
Mukhtar Ansari in police custody
mafia don of purvanchal
By 1990, Mukhtar Ansari had become the leading criminal mafia in eastern Uttar Pradesh, and expanded his criminal activities to Mau, Ghazipur, Varanasi and Jaunpur. He controlled Ghazipur’s lucrative contracting or contract work mafia, which included coal mining, railway construction, PWD construction and liquor business. Ansari has been controlling various government contracts worth hundreds of crores of rupees in eastern Uttar Pradesh for many years. Apart from contractual work, Ansari also has his forte in extortion, kidnapping and extortion of protection money called ‘Gunda Tax’.
Purvanchal’s biggest rivalry
While competing for Ghazipur’s lucrative trankari or contract work mafia, Ansari came face to face with Brijesh Singh, another powerful leader from eastern Uttar Pradesh. The reason for the conflict between Ansari and Brijesh Singh was a land plot near Saidpur in the early 1980s for which two groups, one led by Makhanu Singh and Sandhu Singh and the other led by Sahib Singh and Ranjit Singh, Had come face to face. face. After the murder of Makhnu Singh there was brutal retaliation. Later Mukhtar Ansari became an associate of Makhnu Singh’s gang, while Brijesh Singh joined Saheb Singh’s gang. Subsequently, the Mukhtar Ansari-Brijesh Singh feud led to massive bloodshed in the area through several gang wars. In 2001, Brijesh Singh ambushed Ansari’s convoy on the Mau-Lucknow highway, leading to a shootout in which three of Ansari’s key men were killed. In the firing, Brijesh Singh was seriously injured and was later declared dead in the popular media; However, a year later, he appeared in the Mau-Ghazipur area.
Mukhtar Ansari and Brijesh Singh rivalry
Krishnanand Rai murder case
After Krishnanand Rai won from Mohammadabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 2002; Defeating Mukhtar Ansari’s brother Afzal Ansari, he allegedly gave all government contracts to Brijesh Singh, who allegedly financed Rai’s election campaigns. Krishnanand Rai was murdered in mafia style on 29 November 2005. Following Rai’s murder, an FIR was lodged at the Ghazipur police station, naming Mukhtar Ansari, his elder brother Afzal Ansari and Munna Bajrangi as allegedly involved in the murder of Krishnanand Rai. Later Mukhtar Ansari was arrested and sent to jail; However, on 3 July 2019, after spending 13 years in prison, he was released after witnesses against him turned hostile.
On 29 April 2023, the MP-MLA court of Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh convicted Ansari of kidnapping and murder of Krishnanand Rai and sentenced him to 10 years in jail with a fine of Rs 5 lakh. On September 25, 2023, Allahabad High Court had granted bail to Mukhtar Ansari, lodged in Banda jail of Uttar Pradesh, in this case. The fine of Rs 5 lakh was stayed by the court.
political career
In 1996, Mukhtar Ansari contested the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections from Mau for the first time on BSP ticket and won. Since then, he has been elected MLA from Mau constituency a record five times. He contested the 2002 and 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections as an independent candidate from Mau and won. He lost the Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi in 2009 on BSP ticket. In 2012, he formed a new political party, Qaumi Ekta Dal and contested the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections as a Qaumi Ekta Dal candidate and won. In 2017, he returned to Bahujan Samaj Party and won the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections from Mau.
Mukhtar Ansari in UP Assembly
Controversy and criminal charges
- He faces seven charges related to criminal intimidation (IPC section 506).
- He faces five charges related to attempt to murder (IPC section 307).
- He faces five charges related to murder (IPC section 302).
- He faces two charges related to dishonestly misappropriating the property of a deceased person at the time of his death (IPC section 404).
- There are two charges against him related to cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property (IPC section 420).
- He faces a charge related to forgery of valuable security, will etc (IPC section 467).
- There is a charge against him related to forgery for the purpose of cheating (IPC section 468).
- One of the charges against him pertains to voluntarily causing grievous hurt (IPC section 325).
- There are six charges against him related to rioting (IPC section 147).
- He faces six charges related to criminal conspiracy (IPC section 120B).
- There are four charges against him related to rioting and being armed with a deadly weapon (IPC section 148).
- He faces four charges relating to each member of an unlawful assembly being guilty of an offense committed in furtherance of a common object (IPC section 149).
- There are three charges against him relating to assault or criminal force to prevent a public servant from discharging his duty (IPC Section 353).
- He faces two charges related to act endangering life or personal safety of others (IPC Section 336).
- There are two charges against him relating to acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention (IPC Section-34).
- There is a charge against him related to cheating by impersonation (IPC section 419).
- A charge on him relates to the punishment of abetment if the abetted act is committed in consequence, and where no express provision is made for its punishment (IPC section 109).
- There is a charge against him related to intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace (IPC section 504).
- On 23 September 2022, the Allahabad High Court sentenced him to five years in prison under the Gangster Act in a case related to the murder of a jail superintendent in Lucknow in 1999. Earlier, this month, the High Court had sentenced him for criminally threatening a jailer 19 years ago.
- On 14 December 2022, he was produced in a court in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, after which ED officials arrested him in a money laundering case; The gangster was lodged in Banda jail of Uttar Pradesh.
- On June 5, 2023, a Varanasi court sentenced him to life imprisonment in the case of the murder of Awadhesh Rai that took place 32 years ago. Awadhesh Rai, brother of Congress leader and former MLA Ajay Rai, was shot dead outside Ajay Rai’s residence in Varanasi on 3 August 1991.
- On 13 March 2024, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1990 fake arms license case by a special MP/MLA court in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
Salary
Mukhtar Ansari received Rs 1.95 lakh monthly salary as MLA from Uttar Pradesh.
net worth
According to his affidavit filed during the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, his net worth is around Rs. 22 crores.
Facts/General Knowledge
- His grandfather, Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, was one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia University, and served as its Chancellor from 1928 to 1936. Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was also a renowned surgeon who led the Indian medical mission to Turkey for treatment. Soldier wounded during the Balkan War. Dr. Ansari studied at Charing Cross Hospital, London, where a medical ward is named in his honour.
Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari during the Indian medical mission to treat Turkish soldiers injured during the Balkan War.
- Former Vice President of India Hamid Ansari is the grandson of Mukhtar Ansari’s grandfather Ahmed Ansari.
- He was expelled from BSP in 2010 due to his involvement in criminal activities.
Mukhtar Ansari is joining BSP
- He is considered the Robinhood of Eastern Uttar Pradesh. He is known for helping the poor in the area such as giving loans, financing the marriage of daughters of poor men, etc.
- MX Player Original crime drama web series, Raktanchal is reportedly inspired by real events from Purvanchal of the 80s; Especially the conflict between Brijesh Singh and Mukhtar Ansari gang.
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