New Delhi: Ahead of the high-profile Uttar Pradesh elections next year, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Friday (September 10) said that her party will not field ‘bahubali’ (strongmen) or mafia candidates in the upcoming polls.
Denying party ticket to jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from Mau, Mayawati announced BSP state president Bhim Rajbhar will contest from the seat next year. Ansari, who represents Mau, is currently lodged in a jail in Banda, facing 52 cases in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere, while 15 cases are in the trial stage, ANI reported.
Taking to Twitter, the former UP CM wrote in Hindi, “In upcoming assembly polls, the BSP’s effort will be to not field ‘bahubali’ and mafia elements. So, the name of Bhim Rajbhar, the BSP UP president, has been finalised from the Mau assembly seat in place of Mukhtar Ansari.
The decision comes after Mukhtar Ansari’s brother Sigbatullah Ansari joined the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party. The BSP had given a ticket to Mukhtar Ansari and his son Abbas Ansari, who could not win the election, in 2017 UP Assembly polls.
Meanwhile, in a fresh tweet, Mayawati directed the party-in-charge to take special care while selecting the candidates “so that there is no problem in taking strict action against such elements once the government is formed.
“BSP’s resolve is to change UP’s image by rule of law so that not only the state and the country, but every child says that the government should be like Behan ji`s `Sarvajan Hitay and Sarvajan Sukhay` and the BSP does what it says and it is also the true identity of the party,” the BSP chief added.
Bureau Report
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