DGP trying to kill me in jail: Mukhtar Ansari

Raising the issue during the Zero Hour through an adjournment notice, Mukhtar claimed he faced threat to his life and demanded adequate security from the Government. Pressing for the admissibility of the notice, he said 21 of his supporters — who had come to Lucknow to invite Cooperative Minister Swami Prasad Maurya for a programme at Azamgarh — were arrested on false charges. He said most of these people have clean records with no case ever lodged against them. “Yet, the police booked and sent them to jail.”

Demanding withdrawal of the cases against these people, Mukhtar said he faced a threat to his life during his travel from Ghazipur to Lucknow to attend the Assembly sessions. He also waved a CD towards the Chair, claiming it had the recording of a criminal who had admitted before the police that he had tried to kill Mukhtar at the Secretariat during Mulayam Singh Yadav’s regime. He demanded a high-level probe into the issue and claimed that an earlier probe was scuttled at the behest of a senior SP leader during the previous regime.

Replying to the motion, state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Lalji Verma denied any official was conspiring to kill Mukhtar. He also assured that adequate security will be given to the MLA.

Supporting the issue raised by Mukhtar, SP deputy leader Mohd Azam Khan alleged that the state Government was targeting political opponents. “I have been called a terrorist and once my vehicle was searched for the same reason. My 11-year-old son was booked under false charges,” he said.