LUCKNOW The tussle for Ghosi bypoll has intensified with jailed mafia- politician Mukhtar Ansari’s family throwing weight behind Samajwadi Occasion candidate Sudhakar Singh.
Suhaib Ansari, SP MLA from Mohammadabad, and son of former MLA Sibgatullah Ansari (elder brother of Mukhtar), campaigned extensively in Ghosi’s largely Muslim dominated areas and villages for two days until Thursday.
In Ghosi bypolls, SP’s Sudhakar Singh is locked in a straight battle with the ruling BJP’s Dara Singh Chauhan. Each are one-time former MLAs from this seat. The bypoll to the seat was necessitated after Dara Singh Chauhan, who was SP MLA on the seat, resigned from his meeting membership and joined the BJP.
Whereas Suhaib has already campaigned, sources within the SP stated quickly his father Sibgatullah Ansari too is prone to campagin for Sudhakar.
On Wednesday, Suhaib tweeted that he had campaigned for Sudhakar Singh.
Mukhtar’s is a politically influential family within the Mau-Ghazipur area. He and his two brothers had been legislators from the area. Jailed Mukhtar’s different brother Afzal too is a gangster-turned-politician, however Sibgatullah has no prison antecedents.
Mukhtar’s son Abbas Ansari is an MLA as he received the Mau meeting seat as Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Occasion (SBSP) in alliance with the SP, whereas his cousin Suhaib received the Mohammadabad meeting seat (in Ghazipur) in 2022 as SP candidate.
Sibgatullah, who had been MLA from the identical seat twice (as soon as as SP member and the second time as QED-Qaumi Ekta Dal) and Suhaib had joined the SP in 2021.
On Friday, SP chief nationwide common secretary Ramgopal Yadav went to Ghosi to assessment the celebration’s preparation for the bypoll. When newspersons requested him about Mukhtar’s family campaigning for the SP in Ghosi, Ramgopal stated: “Only one individual in a family being a prison doesn’t make the whole family so.” When requested about Mukhtar’s nephew Suhaib campaigning for Sudhakar, he stated: “If he’s an SP MLA wouldn’t he marketing campaign for an SP candidate.”
Earlier this week, Suheldev Swabhiman Occasion (SSP), a celebration of the Rajbhar neighborhood had additionally introduced help for SP candidate Sudhakar Singh.
The SSP is the splinter group of the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Occasion (SBSP), which is a BJP ally and calls itself the celebration primarily of Rajbhars.
Whereas SP is defending the seat, BJP’s Dara Singh Chauhan too is defending the seat as he was SP MLA earlier who resigned from the seat on July 15 to hitch the BJP two days later.
