Party not to give ticket to Mukhtar, sitting MLA from Mau
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati has taken a strong decision not to field any candidate with criminal background in the 2022 Assembly polls and decided not to field Mukhtar Ansari, a top criminal facing jail term.
In a couple of tweets on Friday, Mayawati said, “In the upcoming UP Assembly general election, it will be BSP’s effort to not give any bahubali and mafia party tickets.”
She announced that “in view of this decision, the name of Bhim Rajbhar, BSP State president of UP, has been finalised from Mau Assembly seat from where mafia don Mukhtar Ansari is the sitting member of the Legislative Assembly from BSP.”
Mayawati said, “As a result of this decision, efforts are on to meet the expectations of the people. There is an appeal to the party in-charge to take special care while selecting the party candidates so that if the BSP Government is formed in the State then, strict action could be taken against such elements.”
Mayawati further said the BSP has resolved to change the picture of UP by adopting “rule of law” so that not only the State and the country, but every child should say that if there is a BSP Government, of “Sarvajan Hitay and Sarvajan Sukhay” then they are safe.
Besides, the BSP should also show by doing things what it says, and it should be the true identity of the party, she added. Recently Sigbatullah Ansari, elder brother of jailed mafia Mukhtar Ansari, had joined the Samajwadi Party and it was reported that Mukhtar’s son and other family members too could join hands with Akhilesh Yadav.
Mukhtar, BSP MLA from Mau Assembly seat, is presently lodged in Banda jail.
Afzal Ansari, one of Mukhtar’s other brothers, is a BSP lawmaker, who represents the Ghazipur seat in Parliament. He defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Manoj Sinha, who is now the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir.
The Ansari family is already facing trouble since the coming of the BJP Government and not just stern action has been taken against them and their aides but the administration had also demolished property worth several crores which the Ansari family allegedly procured through “muscle” or “gun” power.
Meanwhile BSP national spokesperson Sudhindra Bhadoria on Friday said due to the Centre’s economic policies there is an unemployment crisis among youth in Uttar Pradesh.
While speaking to a news agency, he slammed the BJP over unemployment in the State and said, “Uttar Pradesh is facing an unemployment crisis among youth due to Centre’s economic policies. From the time of demonetisation, the economy has been facing a downfall.”
“The youth are in search of an option and only the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) can eradicate unemployment in the State,” he added. The BSP leader supported farmers’ demand for the repeal of three Central farm laws. Speaking over the issue, he said, “The Government should listen to the farmer’s demands and repeal the three central farm laws.”
He assured that the BSP, under the leadership of Mayawati, would focus on establishing a democratic and secular society. “BSP follows the Constitution and I believe that we will win upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls,” he added.
Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are scheduled to take place early next year. In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP won a landslide victory winning 312 Assembly seats. The party secured a 39.67 per cent vote share in the elections for 403-member Assembly. Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, the BSP won 19 while the Congress could manage to win only seven seats.