Mukhtar Ansari Profile: Mukhtar Ansari, who had traveled the journey from mafiagiri to netagiri, was called a good scientist of politics. He contested every election either with different political parties or as an independent. Before coming into politics, Mukhtar Ansari was known as the don of Purvanchal. He had a strong influence on the Mau seat of Uttar Pradesh. For the first time in 1996, Mukhtar contested elections on Bahujan Samaj Party ticket and was elected MLA. Mukhtar Ansari had become MLA from Mau seat for 5 consecutive times.
Mukhtar Ansari became MLA for 5 consecutive times
After this, as a strategy, he changed sides for the second time and contested the elections as an independent candidate in 2002. He got victory this time also. Then in 2007, he announced to contest the elections as an independent for the third time and won, but Mayawati expelled him from the party. Mukhtar had won the election for the fourth time in 2012 on the ticket of Qaumi Ekta Dal.
When Mukhtar returned to SP, Akhilesh ousted him.
After this, he returned to Bahujan Samaj Party in 2017 and won Vijayashree from Mau seat. Then, on the insistence of Shivpal Yadav, he merged his political party with SP, but Akhilesh Yadav expelled him from the party. Then he returned to Mayawati’s party BSP.
Mukhtar Ansari lost in Lok Sabha elections
Mafia don Mukhtar Ansari had announced to contest the Lok Sabha elections in 2009. Then he contested the elections from Varanasi seat on BSP ticket, but he had to face defeat for the first time. Then BJP candidate Murli Manohar Joshi defeated Mukhtar by about 17 thousand votes. Don Mukhtar Ansari got 27 percent votes in this election.
