When UP’s super don dies, who raises a cheer?

Two police constables have been suspended in Uttar Pradesh for ‘praising’ gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, after the latter’s death. The chant of ‘mafia nahin messiah hai’ was also raised among 30,000+ mourners at Ansari’s burial last week. But the numbers of those who have celebrated the death, silently, would be many times greater.
“This is real Holi for me,” said Alka Rai, widow of Mohammadabad BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, who had defeated Mukthar’s elder brother Afzal in 2002 assembly polls. On Nov 29, 2005, Rai and six aides were sprayed with AK-47 bullets allegedly by the Ansari gang.