Six crook-politicians, which includes Atiq Ahmad who turned into shot useless Saturday, had been furloughed from special jails in only forty eight hours with little fanfare in 2008, with a ee-e book on “Baahubalis” claiming their votes had been vital to store the embattled UPA authorities and India`s civil nuclear cope with the US. The Opposition had added a no-self belief movement in opposition to the Manmohan Singh dispensation and at stake turned into his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) authorities and the nuclear deal.
Among those six legislators, who together had over one hundred crook instances in opposition to their names, turned into the then Samajwadi Party’s Lok Sabha MP Atiq Ahmad, who represented Allahabad’s (now Prayagraj) Phulpur constituency.
The ee-e book — “Baahubalis of Indian Politics: From Bullet to Ballot” — authored via way of means of Rajesh Singh and posted via way of means of Rupa Publications mentions how the gangster-baby-kisser had the difference of being one of the musclemen who stored the UPA authorities from a collapse.
The Left events had withdrawn their outdoor aid to the regime in mid-2008 over the authorities’s selection to continue with a civil nuclear deal.
“The UPA had 228 individuals withinside the Lok Sabha and turned into quick of forty four seats for a easy majority to conquer the disaster of self belief. Prime Minister Singh, however, expressed self belief that he might survive. It quickly have become glaring as to wherein that self belief got here from,” Singh writes.
He notes that the Samajwadi Party prolonged aid, as did Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Deve Gowda’s Janata Dal (Secular) to the UPA at the same time as there had been others, which includes the “Baahubali netas”, who did their bit.
“Forty-8 hours earlier than the vote and with little fanfare, the authorities furloughed six of the nation’s maximum distinguished suspected lawbreakers — together going through over one hundred instances of kidnapping, murder, extortion, arson and more — in order that they might fulfil their constitutional responsibilities as lawmakers,” the ee-e book states.
“One amongst them turned into Ateeq Ahmed, a Samajwadi Party lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh, with a conspicuous handlebar moustache and a penchant for safari suits. He dutifully solid his treasured vote, absolute confidence in favour of the beleaguered UPA. The don had, via way of means of then, installed himself in each politics and crime,” consistent with the ee-e book.
He turned into a 5-time MLA from Uttar Pradesh, having forayed into electoral politics efficaciously in 1989. He have become a member of the Lok Sabha in 2004 elected on a Samajwadi Party ticket, though, much less than 5 years later, the celebration might expel him on grounds of his crook record.
Ahmad (60) diagnosed himself as a baby-kisser, contractor, builder, assets provider and agriculturist however additionally had critical crook prices to his call which includes of kidnapping, extortion and murder.
Ahmed and his brother Ashraf had been shot useless Saturday night time in Prayagraj in a dramatic flip of occasions while 3 assailants posing as newshounds opened hearthplace on them withinside the center of a media interaction. The Ahmeds had been handcuffed collectively as they had been being escorted in police safety at a sanatorium for obligatory fitness checkup. As they alighted from the police jeep, surrounded via way of means of police personnel, and had been seeking to solution questions via way of means of the media persons, they had been shot useless in complete view of the camera.
Earlier on Saturday, Atiq’s son Asad turned into buried in Prayagraj, an afternoon after he turned into killed in an change of hearthplace with the UP police’s Special Task Force in Jhansi. No near own circle of relatives member, which includes the beleaguered gangster himself, should attend the burial.
Briefing journalists approximately the lethal shootout, Prayagraj Police Commissioner Ramit Sharma on Saturday stated the 3 assailants, who had been arrested at once after the incident, had joined the organization of journalists who had been seeking to get sound bites from Ahmad and Ashraf.
“In accordance with a obligatory prison requirement, Atiq Ahmad and Ashraf had been added to the sanatorium for a scientific examination. According to initial information, 3 guys posing as newshounds approached them and opened hearthplace. Ahmad and Ashraf had been killed withinside the attack. The attackers had been held and are being questioned,” Sharma stated.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has fashioned a 3-member judicial fee to probe the killing of Atiq and his brother, consistent with officials.