A Delhi court may recently have sentenced MLA Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari to 10 years in jail, and fined him Rs five lakhs, but the mere presence a criminal in the assembly or parliament no longer raises any eye-brows in UP.
That was the epithet Kalyan Singh had given him before he decided to bestow a ministerial berth to him. The 'noor-e-nazar' of Beti riyasat now languishes in a dark dungeon.