‘Mukhtar Ansari is a martyr’: Owaisi triggers a row in Varanasi
Speaking at a public meeting, the AIMIM chief called PM Modi anti-Muslim and called out the SP and Congress for not speaking for the community.
Speaking at a public meeting, the AIMIM chief called PM Modi anti-Muslim and called out the SP and Congress for not speaking for the community.
Death of Mafia don Mukhtar Ansari during judicial custody in Banda jail on March 28 and the allegations of his family that he was poisoned, seems to have gone on the back burner.
Speaking at an Eid Milap programme in Hyderabad, the AIMIM floor leader in the Telangana Assembly sounded prophetic when he asked his supporters to imagine a situation where there is no AIMIM and the Owaisi brothers.
Maurya, who reached here on Sunday to give election mantra to BJP social media wing, was talking to media persons.
The Senior Superintendent of Banda jail, where gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari was lodged before he died last week, received a death threat on his phone, the police said.
On March 20, I talked to the Jail Superintendent. He had informed me that a panel of doctors is treating him and his health is fine. When I told during conversation that he has been poisoned, he was mum, said MP Afzal Ansari.
The appearance of Mukhtar Ansari and his 12 other associates in the gangster case was scheduled on Friday. At present, the court has not given any decision on this application.
The opposition parties, including the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), have demanded a high-level probe into the death.
Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a magisterial investigation into the death of Mukhtar Ansari.
Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was admitted to Uttar Pradesh's Banda Medical College on Tuesday after his health deteriorated in jail.