Abbas Ansari

Some Lesser Known Facts About Abbas Ansari

• Abbas grew up in a family of politicians in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh.

  

• Inclined toward shooting from a young age, Abbas began his career as a skeet shooter. He holds expertise in all three categories of shooting- big bore skeet, rifle, and pistol.

  

• In 2011, he won his first national championship in the shotgun category.

• He has bagged gold medals in three national championships in shooting.

• He has also represented India at various international events; Abbas played for India in the shooting world cups at Germany and Finland.

  

• In 2014, he was preparing himself for the Rio Olympics. However, he missed out on the berth after he met with an accident.

• He was also a participant in the 2015 National Shotgun Shooting Championship.

  

• In 2016, he began his political career by joining the Bahujan Samaj Party.

  

• In the same year, Abbas Ansari inaugurated the Ansari Public School in the Mau district of Uttar Pradesh.

• In 2017, he competed in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Elections from the Ghosi constituency. He contested the elections on a ticket of the Bahujan Samaj Party and lost to Fagu Chauhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

  

• In 2022, Abbas contested and won the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Mau on a ticket from the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, an ally of the Samajwadi Party.

  Earlier, his father, Mukhtar Ansari, was a sitting MLA from Mau; Mukhtar won the Legislative Assembly elections from the Mau constituency for five consecutive terms (starting from 1996). In 2022, during a media conversation, when Abbas was asked why his father did not file his nomination, Abbas replied,

  You should ask the government and administration about this.”

  

• Abbas was declared an ‘absconder’ by the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court in 2022 after he failed to appear in court despite receiving multiple summons.

• He likes to travel and do adventure sports in his spare time.

• A fitness enthusiast, Abbas follows a strict workout regimen.

  

Abbas Ansari distributing blankets to the poor