Afzal Ansari disqualified as Lok Sabha MP

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Afzal Ansari disqualified as Lok Sabha MP

May 01, 2023
Updated: 09:31 pm

Afzal Ansari disqualified as Lok Sabha MP

New Delhi, May 1 : Bahujan Samaj Party MP Afzal Ansari, brother of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, was disqualified from Lok Sabha on Monday following his conviction in a 2007 Gangsters Act case. According to a Lok Sabha Secretariat notification issued on Monday, Ansari stands disqualified as MP from Lok Sabha from Ghazipur, with effect from April 29, the date of his conviction. The Ghazipur MP-MLA court had last week sentenced Ansari to four years of prison and also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on him. The court had also convicted Mukhtar Ansari in the same case and sentenced him to 10 years of imprisonment, whil imposing a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on him. /IANS

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