In 2023, he contested the mayor's election on AIMIM ticket and now he is contesting elections for the third time. However, after his medical condition, there
Mukhtar Ansari started gaining prominence during the 1980s and 90s, a period characterised by the widespread criminalisation of politics in Uttar Pradesh. He was facing trial in various cases in courts of Delhi, Punjab, and multiple districts of Uttar Pradesh. Since 2020, the UP government and the UP police have intensified efforts to prosecute Ansari.
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Due to his formidable influence in east UP districts, Mukhtar enjoyed patronage of every party dispensation in the state from 1996 until 2017, when Yogi-led BJP govt took charge