Mukhtar Ansari’s son 6th UP MLA to be disqualified

Abbas Ansari, the son of gangster turned politician Mukhtar Ansari, was notified as disqualified from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly from May 31.

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Abbas Ansari is an MLA from the Mau segment, for which a byelection will be hold. He belongs to the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP), a BJP ally in the UP Government.

The disqualification came after he was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a hate speech case.

The Representation of the People Act, 1951, provides for termination of legislative Assembly membership in case an MLA is sentenced to an imprisonment of two years or more.

Abbas was elected MLA in 2022 after he won the election on the ticket of Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party under the Samajwadi Party-led alliance. However, his party is now a BJP ally and party president Om Prakash Rajbhar is a UP Cabinet Minister.

Notably, he has joined an already long list of five disqualified MLAs from the current state Assembly. Other five disqualified legislators are Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam Khan and Irfan Solanki of the SP; and Vikram Singh and Ramdular Gond of the BJP.

Convicted legislators in state

• SP’s Irfan Solanki from the Sisamau segment was disqualified in June 2024 after he was sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment in a 2022 arson case
• BJP leader Ramdular Gond from Duddhi was disqualified in December 2023 after he was sentenced to 25-yr RI for raping a minor
•  Abdullah Azam Khan of the SP, who won from Suar, was sentenced by a Moradabad court for two years for deterring a public servant from performing duties, and subsequently disqualified in February 2023
• Another MLA of the saffron party, Vikram Saini, representing Khatauli, was disqualified in November 2022. He was sentenced to two-year imprisonment on October 11 for his role in the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots
• SP MLA Azam Khan from the Rampur Sadar segment was disqualified in October 2022 after his conviction in a 2019 hate speech case