Gangsters kin manage win in Panchayat polls
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Lucknow, May 6 : The gangsters may be dead but their legacy lives on. In the recent Panchayat polls, relatives of gangsters jailed or slain have won the people s mandate, mainly because of the influence their son wielded.
In Unnao, Shakun Singh, wife of late MLC Ajit Singh, has won the Zila Panchayat elections.
Ajit Singh, a mafia don turned politician, was shot dead at his own birthday party in a resort in Unnao in September 2004.
Kshama Devi, 68, has won as the village Pradhan for the second time in Prahladpur Khatta village in Baghpat district.