Harish Chandra Vishwakarma, former railway employee, fights against Mukhtar Ansari
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Stealing 2000 bricks is the first trigger. The second is land grabbing. Both cases were allegedly committed by gangster politician Mukhtar Ansari. He retired in 2003 but took no time off.
Former railway employee Harish Chandra Vishwakarma filed a land grab case against regional strongman Mukhtar Ansari the same year. This became the first land grab case in a long list of cases against the regional heavyweight, who died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday. He is 63 years old.
“We all die one day. This is your story as well as my story,” Vishwakarma, 82, who lives in Mau, told philosophically when asked about gangster deaths. New Delhi Television (NDTV).
From 2005 until his death, Mukhtar Ansari was imprisoned in various prisons in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
“There was a piece of land opposite my house that was allegedly occupied by Mukhtar Ansari’s men. A school was built there and Mukhtar Ansari was called to preside over it Inauguration ceremony,” Vishwakarma, 82, who lives in Mau, told New Delhi TV.
“To build a road to the school, his (Mukhtar Ansari) men stole 2,000 bricks that I bought to build a house,” he said.
He added that when Mukhtar Ansari from Mauritius – who is also believed to have strong influence in Ghazipur and Varanasi districts – came to inaugurate the school, people weighed it with coins Got him.
Beginning in 1996, the gangster won five consecutive seats in Mauritius’s parliament, twice as the candidate of the People’s Socialist Party. He last contested parliamentary elections in 2017.
Upon enquiry, the retired railway employee discovered that the land belonged to the state government. He immediately filed a case against Mukhtar Ansari and his men.
When asked how he managed the money, Vishwakarma said he used his pension to fight the case.
Vishwakarma said his brother was attacked by Mukhtar Ansari’s men after he refused to withdraw the case.
As a result of his victory many years later, the school was closed and Mau Nagarapalika took over the property.
He never found the stolen bricks, but Mr Vishwakarma, who lost his wife in 2018, was able to build his own house.
