Top Uttar Pradesh opposition leaders on Friday, March 29, 2024, demanded high-level investigation into the death of jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, with the Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav calling for an investigated under the supervision of a Supreme Court Judge and alleging that Uttar Pradesh is going through the worst phase of ‘government anarchy’.
Mukhtar Ansari’s son, Umar Ansari, alleged that the 63-year-old five-time former MLA was being “slow-poisoned” by a substance mixed in food given to him in the Banda jail.
“My father wrote to courts and told that he was being subjected to ‘slow poison’, the entire country now knows about it,” said the deceased’s son.
