Ajay Rai, UP Congress President, on Saturday urged the Uttar Pradesh government to address the allegations surrounding the death of incarcerated gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari.
District Magistrate Gazipur Aryaka Akhoury said on Saturday that police have been deployed along the route leading from his home to the graveyard as the last rites of the gangster turned politician Mukhtar Ansari would be held today.
Actor-turned-politician and BJP candidate from Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituency, Radhika Sarathkumar, held an election campaign at Thirunagar, Madurai, ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, starting on April 19
The dead body of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who died after suffering a cardiac arrest, was brought to his Ghazipur residence for last rites amid heavy police deployment by the district administration.
"We received the body after some delay so the last rites cannot be performed tonight. It will be done tomorrow morning. I request everybody to pray for him," Sibgatullah Ansari told ANI on Friday.
"Since this news flashed last night, the entire district administration is on alert. We are in touch with the family and they have said that the last rites will be done after morning prayers," Omvir Singh told reporters here.
: Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Friday that a government that "can't protect life has no right to remain in power" a day after gangster turned politician Mukhtar Anasri died in a hospital in Banda, Uttar Pradesh.
After the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari due to cardiac arrest, Umar Ansari, son of Mukhtar Ansari, claimed that his father was given poison in the food and said they would move to the judiciary.
Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari passed away at Banda Medical College Hospital in Uttar Pradesh after he suffered a cardiac arrest on Thursday night.