PATNA: Don-turned politician, Anant Kumar Singh alias
Anant Singh, announced on Thursday that he would contest the upcoming assembly election on an RJD ticket. In 2015, Anant, known as Chhote Sarkar, had won the election as an
independent candidate
from the
Mokama assembly constituency
in
Patna
district.
Anant, who was brought to the civil court from jail for his production in a case, told a select group of journalists that he had got the blessings of RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s family, who asked him to start preparations for the coming polls from Mokama. Anant, who is in judicial custody in connection with an attempt to murder case, also claimed that RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav would be the next chief minister.
Anant’s elder brother Dilip Singh had earlier won the election from Mokama as an RJD candidate. After his death, Anant tried his luck and emerged victorious. He was once considered a close associate of chief minister Nitish Kumar, but later he parted ways and contested the previous election as an independent candidate. Their relations got strained after Anant’s wife Neelam Devi threw her hat in the electoral arena and contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election from the Munger constituency. She was pitted against Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, a confidante of Nitish.
Earlier, Anant alleged that he was being harassed by the authorities on one pretext or the other. “When the court is closed and virtual proceedings are held, I am being taken to the court from jail for production amid the Covid-19 pandemic,” he told journalists on the court premises.
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