Parasnath Yadav was an Indian politician and was elected 7 times MLA in Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh,3 times Minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh and 2 times Member of Parliament from Jaunpur. He was suffering from bladder cancer for many years,eventually he died on the 12 June 2020 at his residence in Jaunpur district,Uttar Pradesh.
Amarmani Tripathi is a politician from Eastern Uttar Pradesh. He was an MLA from Nautanwa,Uttar Pradesh four times. He and his wife were released by UP Government in the Madhumita Shukla murder case in which he conspired to murder. He had earlier been a state Minister in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Hari Shankar Tiwari was an Indian gangster and politician belonging to the Samajwadi Party from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Tiwari was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the village Tanda,Chillupar in Gorakhpur district.
Mukhtar Ansari, was an Indian gangster and a politician,based in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency five times,including twice as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.
Raghuraj Pratap Singh,,commonly known as Raja Bhaiya,is an Indian politician,currently serving as a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly,representing the Kunda assembly constituency of Pratapgarh. He has been elected as an MLA for the seventh consecutive time since 1993 from the same constituency. In 2018,he founded and became the national president of Jansatta Dal Loktantrik party. Singh has held various Cabinet Minister positions in the Government of Uttar Pradesh of both Samajwadi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party administrations.
Munna Bajrangi or Prem Prakash Singh was an Indian politician,a known contract killer and a gang leader from Eastern Uttar Pradesh. In the two decades he was active,he is associated with more than 40 incidents such as murder,attempted murder,and extortion. In 2009,he was jailed for the murder of MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005 and another BJP leader Ramchandra Singh. For many years,he supported the Samajwadi Party headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav,but the gang switched to Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party in the mid-2000s.
Rajendra Pratap Singh,popularly known as Moti Singh,is an Indian politician affiliated to the Bhartiya Janata Party. He represents Patti assembly constituency of Pratapgarh district. He has been elected as the member of legislative assembly from the same constituency for four times in a row. In his fourth attempt for re-election there were errors in counting,which was later cleared by the high court. The then MLA was removed and the seat was left vacant after the decision of High Court. He won the 2017 elections from the same seat and became a Cabinet Minister in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Cabinet. Previously,Shri. Singh served as Uttar Pradesh state Minister of Agriculture in 2003. He was cabinet minister in First Yogi Adityanath ministry.
Arun Verma is an Indian musical artist,politician and actor also he is the member of the Samajwadi Party. He was previously MLA of Sadar constituency of Sultanpur,Uttar Pradesh.
Shri Prakash Shukla October 6,1973 - September 22,1998 (aged 24) was an Indian Gangster active during the 1990's mainly in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He used to be hired by primarily politicians to kill their opponents. He was killed on 22 September 1998,in an encounter with the UP police's Special Task Force. He was about 25 at the time of his death.
Brij Behari Prasad,also spelled Brij Bihari Prasad was an Indian politician. A member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD),Prasad served as Minister for Science and Technology in the Government of Bihar. He was arrested for alleged involvement in corrupt admissions to technical institutes and was murdered on 13 June 1998 at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Patna,where he was undergoing treatment. It was claimed that his death was in retribution for his involvement in assassination of gangster Chhottan Shukla and five other people,who were killed on 4 December 1994,while returning home from a campaign organised in context of 1995 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections. Shukla was a gangster from the Bhumihar community,whereas Prasad was a Bania. Supporters of Prasad were thought to be responsible for the killing of Shukla.
Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress was a regional political party in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was founded in October 1997 by Naresh Agarwal along with Jagdambika Pal,Atul Kumar Singh,Bacha Pathak,Rajeev Shukla,Hari Shankar Tiwari,Suresh Chand Bhardwaj,Shripati Singh and Shyam Sunder Sharma. The party was formed when these leaders broke away from the Indian National Congress to join the All India Indira Congress (Tiwari),led by N. D. Tiwari which led another switched to form Loktantrik Congress.
Ram Prasad Chaudhary is an Indian politician and a member of the 9th Lok Sabha,12th,13th,14th,15th and 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He represents the Kaptanganj constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party. He earlier also served as Minister of State in Mayawati cabinet (1997),Minister of Textile and silk industry in Kalyan Singh government (1997) and Minister of Food and Civil Supplies in Mayawati cabinet (2007–2012). In June 2024,Chaudhary defeated Harish Dwivedi of Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected to Indian Parliament,Lok Sabha from Basti Lok Sabha constituency of Uttar Pradesh.
Raghvendra Pratap Singh is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Domariyaganj in Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Suresh Tiwari is an Indian politician and a former member of 15th and 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of Deoria,Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Barhaj constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Rangbaaz is an Indian web series set against the rustic background of the Gorakhpur in the 1990s It was released as a ZEE5 original on 22 December 2018. In October 2019,ZEE5 renewed the show for a second season,Rangbaaz Phirse,which premiered on 20 December 2019. Season three of Rangbaaz title Rangbaaz:Darr Ki Rajneeti premiered on ZEE5 on 29 July 2022.
Vijay Kumar Mishra is an Indian gangster and politician who has represented Gyanpur constituency on four terms as a member of Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. In November 2023,he was convivted for rape by a special MP/MLA court Bhadohi
Raktanchal is a Hindi-language crime drama web series directed by Ritam Srivastav for MX Player original. The story of the web-series is inspired by real-life events from the 1980s of two notable mafias Purvanchal,a region in east Uttar Pradesh. The series stars Kranti Prakash Jha and Nikitin Dheer along with Chittaranjan Tripathy,Vikram Kochhar,Pramod Pathak,Soundarya Sharma,Ronjini Chakraborty and Daya Shankar Pandey.
Vijama Yadav is an Indian politician. She is widow of deceased Leader Jawahar Yadav (Pandit). She was elected to Pratappur in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Samajwadi Party.
