Mukhtar Ansari is a gangster turned politician from Uttar Pradesh. He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency a record five times. Read More
As part of an action against top gangsters in Ghazipur district, the Uttar Pradesh police has suspended arms licenses of four aides of Mukhtar Ansari. ...
Organised crime had been a flourishing industry in Uttar Pradesh since the eighties when Gorakhpur the home of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was known as the crime capital of the state. ...
Afzal Ansari, the BSP candidate in Ghazipur, sat on a protest outside the strongroom where EVMs are being kept to prevent them from being transported out in a vehicle. ...