: Move over Mukhtar Ansari, Ateeq Ahmad is Yogis new target #IndiaNEWS #National Lucknow, Feb 26 (IANS) Mukhtar Ansari can step aside. Ateeq Ahmad is now the target of the Yogi Adityanath government

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Move over Mukhtar Ansari, Ateeq Ahmad is Yogis new target #IndiaNEWS #National
Lucknow, Feb 26 (IANS) Mukhtar Ansari can step aside. Ateeq Ahmad is now the target of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh.
Ahmad, 62, has over 100 criminal cases lodged against him, including the latest one lodged with the Dhoomanganj police station in Prayagraj on Friday in connection with the murder of Umesh Pal, the main witness of the murder of BSP MLA Raju Pal in 2005.
He is presently lodged in Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad in Gujarat since 2019.
In the Umesh Pal murder case, Ateeqs two sons Umar and Ali, his wife Shaista Parveen, brother Ashraf have also been booked.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to ensure a complete crackdown on Ateeq Ahmad and his empire
Mafia ko mitti mein mila denge, the chief minister said in the UP Assembly on Saturday.
A senior police official, who spoke to IANS on condition of anonymity, said, The Umesh Pal murder will prove to be the proverbial last nail in the coffin for Ateeq who has already been under the scanner. His ill-gotten wealth and properties have been seized. To have even dared to plan and execute the murder of Umesh Pal in this government, shows his sense of bravado. We have been asked to demolish the Ateeq Ahmad empire completely.
Ateeq Ahmad had stepped into the crime world in 1979 after being named as accused in a murder case.
Ateeq became active in politics in 1989 and made his debut in representative politics in the same year, winning the Allahabad West assembly seat as an Independent.
Later, he retained the Allahabad West seat twice 1991 and 1993 as an independent candidate. However, in 1996, he contested on the same seat as SP candidate and won.
After the SP showed him the door in 1998, he joined the Apna Dal (AD) in 1999 and contested from Pratapgarh but lost.
He again won the Allahabad West seat in the 2002 Assembly elections on Apna Dal ticket.
In 2003, Ateeq returned to the SP fold and in 2004, he won from the Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency the seat once held by Indias first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Ateeq hit the headlines in January 2005, when BSP MLA Raju Pal was shot dead in broad daylight in Prayagraj.
A by-election was held on the seat in 2005 and Ashraf won the election defeating BSP candidate Puja Pal, the widow of Raju Pal.
In the 2007 elections, Ashraf again contested the Assembly polls from the SP but lost to Puja Pal of BSP.
Ashraf was accused in Raju Pal murder and is presently in Bareilly jail.
Five years later, in the 2012 Assembly elections Ateeq again tried his luck from Apna Dal from the same seat but lost to BSPs Puja Pal by a margin of 8,885 votes.
He also contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 from Shravasti on SP ticket but lost.

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