Key Points
Few would know the connection between jailed mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari who died during treatment at Banda Medical College on Thursday night and a road in Daryaganj in Delhi..
Ansari Nagar near AIIMS in Delhi is also named after him..
Once Ansari's name spread fear in Ghazipur and surrounding areas where he ran an organised crime racket, was involved in communal riots and murdered many people, the chief among them Krishnanand Rai, the BJP MLA from Mohammadabad Assembly in Ghazipur district..
Brijesh Singh used to support BJP leader Krishnanand Rai who defeated Mukhtar Ansari's brother Afzal Ansari who has been an MLA for five terms and MP twice, from Mohammadabad in the 2002 assembly elections...
A tussle over gaining control of government tenders in one of the most backward regions of the state -- the Ghazipur-Varanasi beltwas probably the flashpoint of animosity between slain Congress leader Awadhesh Rai and don Mukhtar Ansari..
