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Bahujan Samaj Party candidate and criminal-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari has been denied permission to file nomination to contest in the forthcoming general elections.
A division bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and Arun Tandon of the Allahabad High Court dismissed Ansari’s petition Wednesday seeking permission to fight Lok Sabha polls filed by his counsel Gopal Chaturvedi.
“Ansari cannot contest elections as he does not have voting right. Since he was under judicial custody his voting rights remain automatically suspended,” the bench observed.
Mukhtar Ansari was an independent MLA from Mau but he is now a BSP candidate from Varanasi. He had won the Mau seat in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 2007 as an independent, while in prison. He later rejoined BSP unofficially. He is presently lodged in Jhansi jail on charges of murdering rival BJP MLA Krishnand Rai, who was murdered in 2006.
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