Afzal Ansari, leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), was barred from the Lok Sabha on Monday due to his conviction in an abduction and murder case by the MP/MLA Court in Ghazipur. Afzal Ansari is the brother of Mukhtar Ansari, a gangster-turned-politician who represented the Ghazipur constituency.
“Consequent upon his conviction by the Court of Additional Sessions Judge, MP/MLA Court, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh in Special Trial/980/2012, Afzal Ansari, Member of Lok Sabha representing the Ghazipur Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction i.e. 29 April 2023 in terms of the provisions of Article 102(1)(e) of the Constitution of India read with Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951,” the statement from the Lok Sabha Secretariat read.
This comes after the MP/MLA Court sentenced gangster-turned-politician Afzal Ansari to four years in prison in an abduction and murder case involving the death of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Krishnanand Rai on Saturday. Afzal was also fined one lakh rupees. On Saturday, an MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur issued a verdict in an abduction and murder case against gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and BSP MP Afzal Ansari.
