Ansari has been elected as an MLA from the Mau constituency five times, including twice as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate. He last contested the assembly polls in 2017.
Mukhtar Ansari, a former gangster-turned-politician, passed away from cardiac arrest on Thursday. He was admitted to Banda Medical College after being found unconscious in his barrack earlier that day. Ansari had complained of abdominal pain and constipation on Tuesday morning and was discharged after 15 hours of treatment.