Lucknow, May 12: At a time when several ministers
and prominent leaders bit the dust in the Uttar Pradesh
assembly elections, the accused have managed to win their respective seats.
The main accused in the poetess Madhumita Shukla
murder case and former minister Amarmani Tripathi, the main
accused in the BJP legislator Krishnanand Rai murder case
Mukhtar Ansari, and controversial Independent MLA from Kunda
Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya were among them.
Besides these three, Dhananjay Singh, Madan Bhaiya ,
Angad Yadav and Akhilesh Pratap Singh have also made it to
the new assembly.
In western Uttar Pradesh, alleged mafia don D P Yadav
and his wife Umlesh won their respective seats and would be
perhaps the only couple in the new Vidhan Sabha. While Yadav
won from Sahaswan, his wife got the Bisauli seat in Badaun.
Both had contested as Rashtriya Parivartan Dal candidates.
Sushil Singh of Varanasi, Badshah Singh, Brijesh Misra
Saurabh, Dawood Ahmed and Daddan Misra are the other winners
who have criminal cases against them.
Mukhtar Ansari, Amarmani Tripathi and Sushil Singh
contested the elections from jail.
Bureau Report
First Published: Saturday, May 12, 2007, 00:00