Sibakatullah Ansari

Who is Sibakatullah Ansari?

Sibakatullah Ansari or Sibagtulla Ansari is a Samajwadi Party politician from Mohammadabad in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. He is the elder brother in the well-known Ansari family which had a freedom-fighter role during India's independence movement, but has of late been known as the leading criminal-mafia family of Uttar Pradesh.

Sibakatullah's younger brothers Afzal Ansari and Mukhtar Ansari of Ghazipur are currently in jail on charges of having murdered the earlier politician elected from this seat, Bharatiya Janata Party member of legislative assembly Krishnanand Rai. Afzal was a Samajwadi Party Member of Parliament in the national Lok Sabha from Ghazipur 2004-2009. Sibakatullah is a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Mohammadabad and Mukhtar is a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Mau. Mukhtar in particular, is known as the don of Mau, and has a long list of murder, extortion and kidnapping charges pending against him. Such is their perceived criminal clout in the region, that the Election Commission of India had the two brothers shifted from Ghazipur jail, to a jail in Jhansi prior to the elections.

He has been viewed as apolitical earlier, but came out to fight the 2007 elections after his brothers were incarcerated. His name is also sometimes spelt Sibag Tullah.