Political and Criminal Career
Mitrasen Yadav emerged as a gangster in Faizabad in the 1960s. He joined politics as a member of the Communist Party of India. In 1966, he and seven others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Faizabad session court for the murder of two brothers, Jata Shankar Tiwari and Surendra Tiwari, in 1964. Later, he appealed to the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, but the appeal was rejected. Eventually, The Governor of Uttar Pradesh ordered his release on mercy on October 7, 1972, on condition that he would not indulge in crime for seven years.
In 1974, Mitrasen (Yadav) was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha from Milkipur constituency as a Communist Party of India candidate. He was re-elected to the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha in 1977, 1980 and 1985.
During the elections of 1985, Mitrasen was charged in murder of police officer Mohan Das Rai, Station Officer at Inayatnagar, who was stabbed to death on polling day. The case was withdrawn by the government in 1995 at the initiative of the then chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav.
In 1989, he was elected to 9th Lok Sabha from Faizbad constituency as a CPI candidate. In 1991, he contested to the Lok Sabha from the same constituency as an indepdendent but lost. On 4 March 1995, he joined Samajwadi Party (SP). In 1998, he was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha as a Samajwadi Party candidate from the same constituency. Mitrasen joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 1999. In 2001, he left the BSP and re-joined the SP for the second time. In 2004, Mitrasen again joined the BSP, and was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha. In 2009, he again joined the SP for the third time.
In 2009, he was convicted for embezzlement and sentenced to 7 years Rigorous Imprisonment. Subsequently, he was released on bail.
In the 2009 parliamentary elections, Mitrasen had the highest number of criminal charges against him amongst all criminal candidates in India. Of the 35 serious criminal cases against him, 20 are for murder, dacoity, extortion, assault, cheating and forgery.
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