Lucknow. Before the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the color of the leaders is also changing along with the faith in the political party. Sibgatullah Ansari, elder brother of Mafia don and Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Mukhtar Ansari, took the membership of the party along with his son at the Samajwadi Party’s state headquarters in Lucknow on Saturday. Along with this, Ambika Chaudhary also returned home with her son Ballia’s District Panchayat President Anand Chaudhary. Ambika Chaudhary, who was a cabinet minister in the Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav government, had joined the Bahujan Samaj Party during the Lok Sabha elections. Now he has again joined the Samajwadi Party.
Former MLA Sibgatullah Ansari, brother of Bahujan Samaj Party’s Dabang MLA Mukhtar Ansari from Mau, today joined the Samajwadi Party along with his son Munnu Ansari. Sibgatullah Ansari has also boarded a bicycle with his son. Sibagatullah Ansari’s middle brother Afzal Ansari is the Bahujan Samaj Party MP from Ghazipur, while the younger brother Mafia Mukhtar Ansari is the BSP MLA from Mau. Along with Sibgatullah Ansari, a large number of his supporters also reached the Samajwadi Party office today.
Sibgatullah Ansari along with his son Mannu Ansari got Akhilesh Yadav membership of the Samajwadi Party in the presence of former cabinet minister Rajendra Chaudhary. Mukhtar’s elder brother Sibgatullah, who was a two-time MLA from the Muhammadabad assembly, lost to Alka Rai of the BJP in the 2017 assembly elections. Sibgatullah, who formed the Quami Ekta Dal, is now joining the Samajwadi Party. In such a situation, it is almost certain that he or his son will be given a ticket in the 2022 assembly elections.
The Ansari family has been part of the SP in the past as well. This family had also formed a political party named Quami Ekta Dal. Even before the 2017 assembly elections, the Ansari family merged the Quami Ekta Dal with the SP. The entire family had to move out on the protest of Akhilesh Yadav. After which BSP hugged him. Along with this, Mukhtar Ansari from Mau’s Sadar seat, Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas Ansari from Ghosi seat and Sibgatullah Ansari from Ghazipur’s Mohammadabad have been given ticket by BSP. Except Mukhtar, no one got the victory. Apart from this, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BSP had given ticket to Afzal Ansari from Ghazipur on behalf of the Grand Alliance and he won.
Ambika Chaudhary, who was a founding member of the Samajwadi Party, also returned to the party after about five years. Its script was finalized months ago, when his son was given the ticket of Zilla Panchayat President by Samajwadi. Ambika Chaudhary has been a minister in the Mulayam and Akhilesh government of the state. Apart from this, Phephna has been an MLA from the Legislative Assembly seat four times. Ambika Chaudhary has been an MLA continuously since 1993. Contested from BSP in 2017 but lost, in the recent Zilla Panchayat election his son Anand Chaudhary joined Samajwadi Party after getting ticket from BSP and became Zilla Panchayat President.
Ambika Choudhary had left SP and joined BSP just before the 2017 UP assembly elections. Returned to the party after about five years. Resigning from the BSP a few months ago, he wrote to Mayawati that no responsibility, small or big, was assigned to him in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Due to this he felt neglected and unloved in the party. Ambika Chaudhary is considered very close to SP Patron Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Ambika Chaudhary got emotional
An emotional atmosphere was created in the membership program of the Samajwadi Party on Saturday. Former minister Ambika Choudhary got carried away in a lot of emotion during her return to the Samajwadi Party. Ambika Chaudhary was inducted into the party by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. During this, Ambika Chaudhary could not handle herself due to the emotional talk of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and wept in front of Akhilesh Yadav on the stage. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said that Ambika Chaudhary has become very emotional. They are not able to say what they were trying to say. From this it seems that with how much pain he must have left the Samajwadi Party. He said that today I have realized it. Now it will be my endeavor to bring all the people associated with Netaji together. Don’t know why very strong relationships break easily but now everything is going well again. There are ups and downs in politics, but the one who was with you at the right time is your friend. The biggest identity of the people of Ballia is their talk. Even today in Lucknow, the JPIC building is the identity of the people of Ballia.
Today’s rebirth for them
SP President Akhilesh Yadav, while inducting former minister Ambika Chaudhary in the SP, said that all the old friends of Netaji will be re-connected with the Samajwadi Party. Ambika Chaudhary got emotional on joining, she said that today is like a rebirth for her.
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