UP Elections: EC bans Mukhtar Ansari’s son from ballot marketing campaign for twenty-four hours

Express News Service

LUCKNOW:  The Election Commission of India, on Friday, put a ban on Abbas Ansari, 30, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) candidate from Mau Sadar seat and son of mafia don-turned –politician Mukhtar Ansari, from ballot marketing campaign for twenty-four hours  as he was caught on digital camera  issuing open threats to the federal government officers throughout a public assembly in Mau district.

Mau will vote in Phase-7 on March 7. The EC took cognizance of the video clip going viral on social media exhibiting Abbas Ansari delivering a speech throughout which he stated that no authorities officers can be transferred for the primary six months after the formation of SP and alliance authorities in UP as their ‘hisab-kitab’ (settling of scores) can be executed first.

“I have told Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav that no transfers or postings of any officer or employees will happen for six months as we will settle the accounts first with the UP administration and only then their transfer certificates will be stamped,” asserted Ansari.

Meanwhile, the Mau police have registered an FIR towards Abbas Ansari at Kotwali police underneath Section 171F (Offence of undue affect or personation at an election) and Section 506 (felony intimidation) of IPC.

Besides, registering an FIR towards Abbas Ansari, a report has additionally been despatched to Returning Officer of Mau Sadar Assembly seat for initiating acceptable motion,” stated Sushil Ghule, Mau SP.

However, taking cognizance of the Mau police report, the election fee acted towards Ansari.

Videos of Abbas Ansari’s controversial remarks have been extensively shared, prompting police to take cognizance and start investigations. 

ADG Law and Order Prashant Kumar verified the authenticity the video and ordered that an FIR be registered
towards Ansari for violating the Model Code of Conduct.

When the marketing campaign for the ultimate section of UP elections is at its peak, the video of Abbas Ansari threatening police officers has gone viral on social media.

In this video, Abbas Ansari is seen threatening the officers overtly from the stage of the general public assembly.

Significantly, Abbas Ansari’s father Mukhtar Ansari is incarecerated in Banda jail in reference to numerous felony instances of unlawful land-grabbing, extortion, homicide, and kidnapping.

Mukhtar, who used to run fearlessly in the course of the earlier SP and BSP regimes, is now shifting on a wheelchair even in jail.

Abbas might be dealing with off with BJP candidate Ashok Singh within the seat, the BSP’s state president Bhim Rajbhar, and Congress nominee Madhavendra Bahadur Singh.