Key Points
In 2023, Ansari was convicted, ending Ajay Rai's 32-year-battle for justice...
"We did not give in before Mukhtar Ansari despite his stature and continued our struggle for justice despite all odds," an emotional Ajay Rai, president of the Uttar Pradesh unit of Congress, said last year after the gangster-politician was awarded a life term for killing his brother Awadhesh Rai in 1991..
Over the 32 years, Ajay Rai switched several parties, from the BJP to the Samajwadi Party to Congress, but one thing remained constant -- his legal battle against Mukhtar Ansari, who passed away due to cardiac arrest on March 28...
Thus, he was murdered, after which Mukhtar and other gangsters flourished," Ajay Rai had reportedly said after Ansari's conviction in 2023...
In 2014, Mukhtar Ansari's party, Qaumi Ekta Dal, had announced support for Ajay Rai in the Lok Sabha polls, where he was pitted by Congress against heavyweights Narendra Modi and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal...
