This is what Mukhtar Ansari told his son Umar in last phone call before death

New Delhi: The dreaded gangster who later took to politics, was a broken man during his last days in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda jail. While battling multiple health issues behind the bars, he longed to meet his children and family members.

During a phone call with his daughter and son Umar, the five-time MLA was heard sharing telling about his sinking health even as Umar continued to reassure him how the family was trying hard to get court’s permission for the meeting in jail.

During the call Umar tells his father to have faith in Allah and everything will be fine during the pious month of Ramzan. Umar, in the phone call, told his father that soon he will be out of hail and their whole family will go for Umra and Haj.

While talking about his bad health, Ansari is heard telling Umar that he has become very and he has to take help of wheelchair to walk and he has not had motions for last 10 days.

The purported phone call between the father and son is said to be of couple of days before Ansari died on Thursday night.

63-year-old Ansari was brought to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda from the district jail in “an unconscious state” on Thursday evening and died at the hospital following a cardiac arrest.

Slow poisoning allegations by Mukhtar Ansari’s son, brother

Umar Ansari alleged that his father was subjected to slow poisoning in jail, a charge denied by authorities.

Mukhtar Ansari was brought to the medical college around 8.25 pm on Thursday in an unconscious state after he had complained of vomiting. A team of nine doctors attended to him but he died of cardiac arrest, the medical bulletin stated.

“My father had told us he was being subjected to ‘slow poison’,” Umar Ansari told reporters and added that the entire country knows about it now.

Afzal Ansari, who is also the Ghazipur MP, on Tuesday alleged that his brother was given slow poison in jail.

“Mukhtar said that he was given a poisonous substance in food in jail. This happened for the second time. Around 40 days ago also he was given poison. And recently, he was again given this (poison) due to which his condition is bad,” Afzal Ansari said.

Earlier, Ansari was hospitalised for around 14 hours on Tuesday after he complained of abdominal pain.

Shifting of Mukhtar Ansari from Ropar jail to Banda

In January 2019, Ansari, then a BSP MLA, was lodged in the Ropar jail in connection with an extortion case and remained there for more than two years.

In March 2021, while hearing a plea of the Uttar Pradesh government, the Supreme Court directed the Punjab government to hand over Ansari’s custody to Uttar Pradesh, saying it was being denied on trivial grounds under the guise of medical issues.