Achi news desk-
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav will on Sunday, April 7, visit the ancestral home of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in Mohammadabad city of Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh to offer condolences to his family.
Yadav’s visit comes days after leaders of various political parties visited the Ansari home. Mukhtar Ansar died on March 28.
One of the first political leaders to criticize the Ansari family was Asaduddin Owaisi, head of the All India Majlis-e-Ithadul Muslim (AIMIM).
The Samajwadi Party then rushed party leader and former Lok Sabha MP Dharmendra Yadav and Rajya Sabha MP Balram Yadav to Mohammadabad in Ghazipur. The two leaders offered flowers at Mukhtari Ansari’s grave at the Kalibagh cemetery and visited his residence to offer their condolences to the family.
SP leader Ram Sudhakar Yadav on Saturday, April 6, installed a hoard of Mukhtar Ansari near the party’s state unit office, urging people not to celebrate Eid and observe two minutes’ silence for Mukhtar Ansari. The local police later removed the hoarding.
During the visit, Akhilesh Yadav will meet Mukhtar’s brother Sivagatullah Ansari, who is a former SP LLA and sitting BSP MP for Jhazipur Lok Sabha seat and Afzal Ansari, who is contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on the SP ticket. Yadav will also meet Mukhtar’s nephew and SP Muhammadabad member Sohib Ansari, his son Omar Ansari and other family members.
