Bahubali: Know entire history of mafia turned politician Mukhtar Ansari

Mukhtar Ansari is an Indian mafia-don turned politician from Uttar Pradesh. He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency a record five times. He has more than 40 criminal cases against him including those of murders and attempts to murder. He was the prime accused in the Krishnanand Rai murder case among other crimes, and has been in jail since 2006. Ansari won his first Assembly election as a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and the next two as an independent. In 2007, he joined BSP and unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election.