Prasagraj: The Mafia Don Ahmed family who was imprisoned has opposed the election since the gangster itself opposed polls for the first time in 1989.
Three decades later in 2022, it would be the second successive assembly selection that was not in the poll.
Despite all Muslims Majlis-e-Ittehadul (AIMIM) had previously announced to the wife of Atiq Shaista Praveen as their candidate from Allahabad West, the seaq won five times in a row, he did not submit a nomination that the last date was February 8.
Politics in the same year, win the West Allahabad assembly seat as independent.
Then, he maintained the chair of West Allahabad twice – 1991 and 1993 – as an independent candidate.
However, in 1996, he opposed the same seats as the Samajwadi Party candidate (SP) and won.
However, after SP showed him the door in 2008, he joined Apna Dal in 1999 and contested from Pratapgrah but was lost.
He again won the West Allahabad seat in the 2002 Assembly election As a member of parliament, he resigned as Mla from Allahabad.
West and lowered his younger brother Khalid Azim aka Ashraf as a candidate of SP in follow-up polls.
However, Ashraf lost the election to Raju Friend BSP, which ended the dominance of Atiq and Family.in winners in January 2005, Raju Pal was shot dead during the extensive daylight, after the selection by-election in 2005 and Ashraf won the election to defeat the BSP Puja candidate PAL, Raju Pal widow.
In the 2007 election, Ashraf again opposed the polls of the Assembly from the SP but lost to Puja friend BSP.
Ashraf was accused of killing Pal Raju and is currently in prison.
Work for years later, in 2012 the Atiq electoral assembly again tried his luck from the Dal Apna from the same seat but lost to the margin of 8,885 votes.
He also opposed the selection of Lok Sabha in 2014 from Shraverti but was lost.
But Atiq’s political ambition is not over.
From prison, he submitted a nomination of the constituency of Varanasi against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019 but managed to get only 855 votes.
In June 2019, he shifted to Ahmedabad’s jail on the command of the Supreme Court.
In the 2017 election, the West Allahabad assembly chair was not represented by anyone from the Atiq family when he was active in Kanpur and expected tickets from SP.
He even started his campaign but then denied the ticket.
Now in 2022, he was his wife, Shaista Praveen was projected as an official candidate by Aimim and even a spokesman for the Mohamad Afsar Party’s party supported his nomination.
However, after the last date the nomination submission ended on Tuesday, both other people from the family came to file nominations.
Thus, the contest from the assembly chair of West Allahabad in the poll this year will not witness anyone from Don or his family (after 2017), even though they enjoy the long-term political influence in this politically significant chair.
No one of the Atiq family contest polls
