UP Congress chief Ajay Rai (R) has fought a authorized battle of 32 years for his brother’s homicide, which resulted in gangster Mukhtar Ansari (L) being convicted and awarded a life sentence. (Picture: PTI/File)
The query stays if Congress will lengthen its assist to Ghazipur’s SP candidate Afzal Ansari, who’s the brother of gangster Mukhtar Ansari, who was convicted for the homicide of UP Congress chief Ajay Rai’s brother
The Samajwadi Celebration and Congress have formally entered a seat-sharing deal in Uttar Pradesh, forward of the Lok Sabha elections, by which the Akhilesh Yadav-led get together and its smaller allies will contest 63 of the state’s 80 seats. The query whether or not the votes will switch to one another stays, however the highlight has been on Ghazipur the place a gang warfare that resulted in an assassination on August 3, 1991, casts an ominous and unsure shadow.
The Ghazipur Lok Sabha seat is with the SP, the place Akhilesh has already introduced gangster Mukhtar Ansari’s brother Afzal Ansari because the candidate. Being in alliance, will the Congress create roadblocks for the SP candidate? One would argue, gained’t the Congress management rein in such components? However, what if the Uttar Pradesh Congress chief has grudges to grind?
State Congress president Ajay Rai was born in Varanasi to Parvati Devi Rai and Surendra Rai in a Bhumihar Brahmin household. Each his mother and father had been natives of Ghazipur district and, therefore, Rai has a long-standing connection right here and with the Ansaris that dates again to the 90s and has its roots within the 80s.
Within the Nineteen Eighties Uttar Pradesh, the competitors of two rival gangsters Brijesh Singh and Mukhtar Ansari, was well-known. Ajay Rai was thought of to be near Singh, whereas Mukhtar thought of Singh as his greatest enemy. And, within the bloody world of gang wars, a buddy of your enemy can be thought of your enemy. By that advantage, the enmity between Ajay and Mukhtar turned obvious.
Then got here the fateful day of August 3, 1991, when Ajay’s elder brother Avday Rai was shot a number of instances outdoors his home by a gaggle of unknown males who got here in a automotive. A younger Ajay took his brother to hospital, however he was pronounced lifeless. He, nonetheless, strongly believed that it was Mukhtar who had despatched the shooters that took his brother from him.
Ajay lodged an FIR and fought an extended authorized battle of 32 years that resulted in a Varanasi courtroom discovering Mukhtar responsible of the homicide of Avday Rai, and awarded him a life sentence. Now, the lingering query is, will Ajay search votes for the brother of somebody who murdered his brother in chilly blood?
Your entire area of Ghazipur, Varanasi, Balia and Mau has a big Bhumihar presence as nicely, and see Afzal Ansari as anti-Bhumihar for the 1991 homicide. The SP is cautious that Ajay might find yourself serving to the BJP candidate in Ghazipur as a result of blood runs thicker than water and dearer than politics.
