Abbas, the son of gang politics Mukhtar Ansari, who died in Banda jail final yr, was Mau Sadar MLA of the Sheldev Bharatiya Samaj Celebration (SBSP), led by Om Prakash Rajbar.
Following Abbas’ disqualification, the 403-person home has seen six disqualifications because the Structure because the election between February and March 2022.
Among the many different lawmakers who’ve been disqualified since 2022 are three SPs and two BJP MLAs.
A complete of 4 MLAs have been disqualified within the 5 years of earlier UP meeting from 2017 to 2022. Three are from BJP and one from SP.
Parliamentary members and MLAs have been disqualified below Part 8 of the Folks’s Illustration Act of 1951. This requires six years of disqualification of prisoners in sure circumstances, together with convictions for crimes with a sentence of greater than two years.
The principle opposition SP known as the disqualification of MLAS’s “Vendetta Politics,” however the BJP identified that the disqualification occurred within the wake of the court docket’s trial and conviction.
Talking to the Indian Specific, SP spokesman and MP Rok Sabah Rajeev Rai mentioned, “That is nothing greater than an obsessive politics towards our leaders as a result of conceitedness of the BJP authorities’s energy. It is a blatant misuse of energy.”
BJP spokesman Rakesh Tripathi mentioned the disqualification occurred after the “due course of.” “The disqualification occurred below representatives of the Folks’s Regulation after the court docket’s conviction. Is the SP not trusting democracy and judiciary that they’re elevating such questions?” Tripati requested.
Let’s check out the disqualifications of six MLAs within the state from 2022 onwards.
Azam Khan (SP), Rampur Sadar
The previous SP minister has confronted many lawsuits because the BJP got here to energy in 2017. A complete of 87 circumstances have been registered towards Khan in Rampur on varied expenses together with grabbing land, misconduct and prison trespassing. In some circumstances, his spouse Tanjeen Fatima and his son Abdullah Azam Khan are co-administered.
In October 2022, Khan misplaced his membership within the Congress following his conviction in a 2019 hate speech case. The lawsuit was filed on a grievance by election officers Anil Kumar Chauhan, claiming that Khan “used foul language on folks in constitutional posts, threatened them and tried to burn the riots.”
The FIR towards Khan was submitted in April 2019 below IPC Part 153A (selling hostility between completely different teams) and 505(1) (publishing or circulating statements, rumors, studies, or studies), and Part 125 (selling hostility between courses associated to elections).
The speech in query got here in the course of the marketing campaign of the 2019 Lok Sabah election, when the Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) and SP competed in an alliance.
Bypoll: The Bypole of Khan’s seat was held in December 2022 and was gained by longtime rival BJP’s Akash Saxena. Saxena defeated Khan’s confidant and SP candidate Asim Raja by over 33,000 votes.
Vikram Saini (BJPP), Khatauli
In November 2022, Saini was disqualified a month after being sentenced to 2 years in jail in a case associated to the 2013 Muzafarnagar riots. After writing Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayan Chaudhary (on the time alliance with SP) and after writing a letter to Satish Mahana asking why the seat of the convicted MLA was not instantly declared when the motion was taken within the case of SP MLA Azam Khan.
A complete of 11 folks, together with Saini, have been convicted of riot-related expenses, riots armed with lethal weapons, assaults or prison forces that put the lives of others in danger, assault or prison forces to forestall exemption from duties, and intentional insults that promote peace violations and prison threats.
Bypoll: At BYPOLL in December 2022, RLD candidate Madan Bhaiyya was supported by SP, beating Saini’s spouse and BJP candidate Rajkumari Saini with over 22,143 votes.
Abdullah Azam Khan (SP), Suar
In February 2023, Azam Khan’s son Abdullah was disqualified from the Congress after Abdullah and his father have been sentenced to 2 years in a 15-year-old case booked for stopping site visitors after Abdullah and his father stopped police after checking Moradabad. The incident during which the incident was registered towards two leaders occurred the day after a terrorist assault on a CRPF camp in close by Rampur district in January 2008, claiming the lives of seven jawans and rickshaw Pura.
The court docket convicted two folks on IPC sections 341 (fraudulent detention) and 353 (assault or prison pressure to forestall an assault or prison pressure from finishing up the duties of a civil servant) and below the Felony Code (Modification) Act.
This was Abdullah’s second disqualification from the parliament. He was beforehand disqualified in 2020 after Allahabad Excessive Court docket put his election apart.
Bypoll: Within the Could 2023 BYPOLL, the candidate for BJP Ally Apna Dal (Soneylal) was gained by Shafeek Ahmed Ansari with 8,724 votes towards SP Anuradha Chauhan.
Ramdular Gond (BJP), Duddhi
In December 2023, BJP MLA Ramdular Gond was disqualified after being sentenced to 25 years in a 2014 rape case involving a 15-year-old lady. He was convicted of the IPC part of rape, inflicting the disappearance of proof, misinformed and was discovered below the provisions of kid safety from the Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.
The sufferer’s households alleged that for greater than 9 years, they confronted plenty of strain and threats from the MLA and his friends over withdrawing the lawsuit.
Bypoll: In June 2024, I went to Bypoll. This was gained by SP Vijay Kumar Singh towards rival BJP Saravan Kumar with 3,208 votes.
Irfan Solanki (SP), Sishamau
In June 2024, Solanki, his youthful brother Rizwan and three others have been sentenced to seven years in jail in 2022 for allegedly harassing a girl and incomes her land in an effort to seize her land within the Jajimau space of Kanpur.
This was the primary conviction of Solanki, a four-time MLA booked in eight since 2022, together with UP Gangster Act and expenses for forgery. Solanki was then disqualified from Congress.
Bypoll: At BYPOLL held in November 2024, Irfan Solanki’s spouse, SP candidate Naseem Solanki, gained from Sisamau’s seat, defeating BJP’s Suresh Awasthi with 8,564 votes.
Abbas Ansari (SBSP) I wish to discover
In June 2025, Abbas Ansari was disqualified after being sentenced to 2 years in a case associated to a controversial speech allegedly threatening a authorities worker.
Abbas, who was elected on Mausader’s SBSP ticket, made an announcement at a public assembly in the course of the 2022 parliamentary elections.
The lawsuit towards Abbas was registered by law enforcement officials and in March 2022 he, together with some constables, addressed a crowd of 150 folks from the stage, threatening to “educate a lesson” to Mau directors after the election, violating the mannequin’s code of conduct.
Bypoll: The Election Fee (EC) has not but introduced the schedule for the Bypole.
