Know criminal-turned-politician BSP MP Dhananjay Singh

New Delhi: The Bahujan Samaj Party MP from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, Dhananjay Singh faces serious charges of murder of CMO in the infamous NRHM (National Rural Health Mission) scam, and the murders of Sanjay Nishad and Nandlal on April 1, 2011 in Jaunpur.On January 18, 2013, a local BSP leader in Baksha area of Jaunpur Anil Mishra was murdered by assailants. Mishra's family alleged the hand of Dhananjay Sigh behind the murder. A case against Dhananjay and three others was filed. Dhananjay Singh had a see-saw relationship with BSP supremo Mayawati.He was expelled from BSP just before the UP assembly polls for meeting the then SP leader Amar Singh clandestinely, but the fact was that Dhananjay, who was embroiled in NRHM scam-related murders of CMOs, was being considered a liability by Mayawati. After meeting Amar Singh, when Dhananjay Singh returned to Varanasi airport, hundreds of his supporters went in vehicles to greet him, but on orders from Mayawati governent, police punctured the tyres of those vehicles and lathicharged his supporters. Mayawati refused to give ticket for Assembly polls to Dhananjay's father, but after the Assembly poll debacle, Mayawati's anger subsided. During the BSP rally in Lucknow, huge hoardings came up carrying pictures of Dhananjay Singh smiling with Mayawati. BSP fielded Dhananjay as its Lok Sabha candidate from Jaunpur, and the latter won.