Mukhtar Ansari’s Attack on Yogi Adityanath and the 11th Hour Life-Saving Switch | Ex-Cop Reveals Details

A sitting MP’s convoy under attack; first stones come raining, next come the petrol bombs, followed by gunfire. The lawmaker’s security men fire back. An IPS officer rushes to the site in a chopper with an AK-47 rifle to handle the situation and join the search operation. The MP is safely evacuated.

This might easily be a sequence from an OTT show based in the heartland. But the events unfolded in reality in 2008 when Yogi Adityanath, then MP from Gorakhpur, had a narrow escape after his convoy was attacked allegedly by the Mukhar Ansari gang.

The dust is coming off of several episodes like this one with the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari.

The five-time MLA from Mau Sadar seat was behind bars since 2005, and had over 60 criminal cases pending against him. He was lodged in the Banda Jail when his health deteriorated and he was rushed to hospital but died during treatment. He was laid to rest amid heavy security presence in Ghazipur’s Mohammadabad Darzi Tola on Saturday.