UP Assembly restores membership of Abbas Ansari
The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly has restored the membership of Abbas Ansari, elder son of the late Mukhtar Ansari and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) MLA from Mau.
The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly has restored the membership of Abbas Ansari, elder son of the late Mukhtar Ansari and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) MLA from Mau.
However, in a major relief, Abbas Ansari’s assembly membership will now be reinstated, and there will be no by-election in the Mau assembly seat.
"The people sitting in the government keep going against us and are making all efforts to disqualify the Opposition members," he charged.
Abbas Ansari, the son of late mafia don Mukhtar Ansari and sitting MLA, has been sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a hate speech case by the MP/MLA Court in Mau on Saturday. The court has also imposed a ine of ₹3,000 on him.
Special Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate A.K. Srivastava passed the order while hearing the prosecution's plea.
