As “Bahubalis,” the End of an Era in Purvanchal Within a Year, Mukhtar Ansari and Atiq Ahmed Pass Away

As “Bahubalis,” the End of an Era in Purvanchal Within a Year, Mukhtar Ansari and Atiq Ahmed Pass Away

It is the conclusion of a period in Purvanchal—EEastern Uttar Pradesh—with the two huge wears, or ‘bahubalis’, as they were known colloquially, biting the dust beneath disputable circumstances inside the final year. Whereas Atiq Ahmed was shot dead in police care by reprobates, the family of Mukhtar Ansari affirms he was poisoned’ to passing interior prison.

For decades, beneath political support, Ahmed and Ansari ran their fiefdom in eastern Uttar Pradesh, extending from Ghazipur to Prayagraj, and were blamed for high-profile killings. The whole locale knew them as mafia, with arrival grabbings, enlisted killings, seizing, and blackmail being a bungalow industry connected to their partners in crime.

It was the real-life adaptation of the ‘Mirzapur web arrangement or the motion picture ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. Both the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have been inclined toward Ahmed and Ansari in the past for political picks up in Purvanchal. This range came to be dreaded for such mafia and sorted out wrongdoing. Ansari served as an MLA from Mau for five sequential terms from 1995 to 2022 and held his get-together participation for about 27 years without being convicted. The fortunes, in any case, have changed since 2014—and more so after 2017—as the BJP came to control in the Middle East and, at that point, the state beneath Yogi Adityanath.

The chief servant was sharp to alter the picture of Purvanchal since he also came from Gorakhpur. A supported campaign by the Yogi government saw properties of both Ahmed and Ansari being seized or destroyed to the ground, which is how the ‘Baba’s Bulldozer’ show got to be celebrated in Uttar Pradesh. Ahmed and Ansari’s long-pending cases were sought after forcefully in court by the Yogi government, guaranteeing they confront equity at long last. Both their budgetary and legal assurances were broken. Ahmed and Ansari saw their to begin with feelings beneath Yogi’s run of the show. Ansari has been in prison for the final 18 years since 2005, confronting 66 cases but not as a convict. Since 2017, he has been sentenced eight times.

Ansari’s conviction for life in 32-year-old Awadhesh Rai’s kill in May’s final year put a conclusion to his deferring strategies of disturbing court procedures, impacting witnesses, or turning them into threats to purchase time. In Rai’s killing, he was sentenced to 32 years. Charges were filed against him in another 1997 case enrolled at Bhelupur police station, Varanasi (after a long time) in 2021. In another case enlisted at Jagdishpura police station in Agra in 1999, charges seem to have been surrounded (after 23 years) in 2022. Too, in a case enrolled against him with the Alambagh police station in Lucknow in 2000, the charges were surrounded (after a long time) in 2021. This appeared to have an impact on the police as well as the legal system.

Earlier, a key hoodlum and shooter of Mukhtar Ansari, Munna Bajrangi, was too slaughtered inside the Baghpat imprison in 2018. Atiq Ahmed too has seen police activity against him since 2017; sometime recently, he was shot dead in his final year along with his brother, Afzal Ansari. ‘Hum Toh Mitti Mein Mil Gaye’ — so said Atiq Ahmed fairly after the passing of his child, Asad Ahmed, in a police experience some time ago. The police seized Atiq’s property and resources worth Rs 1,400 crore, and about 50 shell companies were fixed on charges that Atiq utilized to change over dark cash earned from blackmail to white money.

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Before 2017, Atiq had continuously overseen getting safeguarded and being a free man, in spite of over 100 criminal cases pending against him. To begin with case was held up way back in 1979, but no government in UP seems to get him sentenced in any case as either the witness turned threatening or vanished. It was the Yogi government that guaranteed a solid indictment in the case of the snatching of key witness Umesh Buddy, which led to a first-ever conviction for Atiq, who was given a life term. Yogi Adityanath’s statement that ‘hum mafia ko mitti mein mila denge’ appears to have come genuine both in the case of Ahmed and Ansari, though their passing is covered in discussion. Ansari’s family had been complaining recently that he was being poisoned’ to pass in the prison. These charges may see a nitty-gritty test presently after his death. However, the greater picture remains that Purvanchal is presently free of its two greatest mafias, who have spoken to two major parties, the SP and BSP, in the state gathering. The time of ‘bahubalis’ and gangster-turned-netas in East UP is over.