Jailed 'don' Mukhtar Ansari joined the Bahujan Samaj Party on Thursday. Here is everything you need to know about him:
- Before joining the BSP, Mukhtar nearly allied with the Samjwadi Party. However, the alliance was scrapped at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's insistence
- Mukhtar Ansari has been elected to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly from Mau four times
- He was first elected from Mau in 1994 on a BSP ticket
- He won the election in 2002 and 2007 contesting as an independent
- Mukhtar Ansari joined the BSP in 2007, only to be expelled in 2010 for 'criminal activities'
- He along with his brothers Afzal and Sibakatullah floated their own political outfit called Qaumi Ekta Dal
- The proposed merger of QED with SP led to the first public spat between Akhilesh and Shivpal Yadav
- Mukhtar Has been in jail for more than a decade, accused of several cases of extortion, rioting and murder, including that of BJP leader Krishnanand Rai who was gunned down in 2005
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