Uttar Pradesh : Mayawati takes Mukhtar Ansari and son into party fold, gives election tickets
Maywati also allotted party ticket to Ansari's son Abbas for contesting from Ghosi constituency.
Ansari, a gangster-turned politician, is an MLA elected from Mau. Last week he quit the SP, beset with internal bickering.
"The family of Mukhtar Ansari was falsely implicated in the 2005 murder case when the Samajwadi Party government was in power," Mayawati said while addressing a press conference.
She, however, said BSP won’t include people like Raja Bhaiya, Atiq Ahmad and Vijay Mishra.
The BSP chief slammed the BJP for raking up the Ram Temple issue for "political gains."
"The BJP has accepted its defeat even before the Assembly elections," she said.
Mayawati said her party, if elected to power, will focus on maintaining law and order situation in the state.
"Whenever the BSP came to power in UP, it tried to work for all-round development of the state," she said.
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