Wanted in Lucknow, is former BSP MP campaigning in Jaunpur?

Lucknow: Don-turned-politician Dhananjay Singh, wanted in the sensational Ajit Singh murder case and who carries a reward of Rs 25,000, is said to be clandestinely campaigning for his wife in Jaunpur. Dhananjay’s wife Shrikala is a BJP leader and is a ticket hopeful for the zila panchayat election.
According to Lucknow police, Dhananjay, a former BSP MP from Jaunpur, was the mastermind of Singh’s murder.Singh, who belonged to the rival group of Mukhtar Ansari, was sprayed with bullets in Gomtinagar on January 6. When police stepped up the heat, Dhananjay surrendered before a court in another case and was sent to Fatehgarh jail. Dhananjay was granted bail by an MPMLA court earlier this week as Lucknow police failed to produce summons before it on time. After getting released, the former MP, along with his supporters, drove down to Jaunpur.
Sources say Dhananjay campaigning for his wife shows his defiance for the police despite the warrant against him and also his proximity to some netas and police officials in UP, who might be allegedly protecting him.
Lucknow police commissioner DK Thakur told TOI: “Dhananjay is wanted in criminal cases and also carries a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head.” Thakur, however, said he was not aware of the don-neta campaigning for his wife in Jaunpur. In the bloody rivalry in the underworld of the state, Dhananjay is seen as an arch rival of the imprisoned independent MLA and history-sheeter Mukhtar Ansari. Dhananjay, who had been MLA in 2002 and then BSP MP in 2009, is involved in several heinous crime cases, including the one in which one of his rivals in Lok Sabha elections in 2009 was found murdered in a gruesome manner.
It remains to be seen if his wife will get BJP ticket for the panchayat election given his tainted record and also how long will Jaunpur bahubali continue to defy UP Police.