In January 2017, just weeks ahead of voting for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls campaign, the Bahujan Samaj Party, desperate to return to power, made a risky move of welcoming into its ranks criminally tainted MLA from Purvanchal, Mukhtar Ansari, his brothers Afzal Ansari and Sigbatullah Ansari, and son Abbas. While defending the induction of the jailed MLA Mukhtar Ansari, …