4 history-sheeters from UP storm Lok Sabha

Yadav and Brij Bhushan are both sitting MPs and have been elected from Azamgarh and Kaiserganj respectively.

Dhananjay Singh is an MLA who has been elected MP from Jaunpur.

Patel won in Mirzapur,which was once represented by bandit queen Phoolan Devi. Patel is brother of dacoit Shiv Kumar alias Dadua who was gunned down by the police in 2007.

Dhananjay Singh’s latest run-in with controversy was when the slain Indian Justice Party candidate Bahadur Sonekar’s family in Jaunpur said the MLA had been threatening him to withdraw from the fray.

In the Lok Sabha polls,SP had fielded 10 history-sheeters,while BSP kept it at six and the BJP at one.

Among the history-sheeters who bit dust in these polls are DP Yadav,Rizwan Zaheer,Atiq Ahmad,Arun Shankar Shukla,Mehboob Ali,Mitrasen Yadav and Om Prakash Gupta.

Three history sheeters — Atiq Ahmad,Kamlesh Pathak and Mukhtar Ansari — contested the election from jail.

Ansari,who lost to BJP’s Murli Manohar Joshi in Varanasi as the BSP candidate,has 34 criminal cases pending against him,including murder of BJP leader Krishna Nand Rai.