Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday visited Yusufpur, the ancestral home of late mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to pay his condolence.

Yadav reached the house of BSP MP Afzal Ansari , now SP Lok Sabha candidate from Ghazipur, in their house named Phatak to express his condolences. During this period, strict security arrangements were in place.

After meeting the family members of Mukhtar, he reached the cemetery at Kalibagh ,where paid tribute to the departed soul by offering flowers on his grave.

Later talking to media , Akhilesh Yadav said that the apprehensions expressed by Mukhtar Ansari proved to be true and my demand is that there should be an investigation and the truth should come out.

” If the investigation is conducted under the supervision of a sitting judge of the Supreme Court, then justice will be served. I do not trust the government to bring out the truth in this matter. Although people know what the truth is,” he demanded.
In support of Mukhtar, he said that people sitting far away do not know his image and Mukhtar’s image was not as described.

” The general public is not considering it as a natural death. The Government of India has been accused in similar incidents of America and Canada . Mukhtar Ansari has been a public servant and in democracy he used to share in the suffering of the people,” he claimed.

Yadav said that the government does not have answers to the questions regarding the incident that happened in the jail. ” I have always been saying that people are facing the most discrimination in this government. It wants to go beyond the government and states in custodian death. As far as this matter is concerned. This person himself was punished for so many years and himself said that his life would be taken away,” he added.

He charged that poison was given in the jail to Mukhtar. ” This is not the first incident, even before this the government could not provide security to those who said that there was a threat to their lives in jail. The government which cannot provide security to the people is not the government of the people,” he said while adding that there is pressure on media too on the matter.

SP President said that it is the responsibility of the government to ensure that people get justice. People’s sentiments towards the government should be good, but this is not happening. This government worked to undermine truth and trust.

There were tight security arrangements at Afzal Ansari’s residence during the visit of Akhilesh Yadav. Along with DM and SP, police team and paramilitary force were present there. A huge crowd was also gathered outside Afzal’s residence when Akhilesh was meeting the family members of Mukhtar .

After the death of Mukhtar Ansari on March 28 due to heart attack when he was lodged in the Banda jail , there is an influx of people reaching Yusufpur to meet the family. Earlier several SP leader and AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi too visited thd place.

Meanwhile, Akhilesh Yadav has hit back on UP deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who was in Azamgarh abd termed Mukhtar as a criminal and a mafia.
SP President said who is a bigger goon in UP than Keshav Prasad. He said that if BJP government comes again in power, the uniform of policemen people like Agniveer will become just for 4 years.