prayagrajlucknow atiq ahmeds story is intertwined with the rise of criminals in uttar pradeshs politics he was one of the accused booked by lucknows hazratganj police in 1995 in connection with the infamous guesthouse case it involved the attack on the then cm mayawati who was staying at the mirabai marg state guesthouseaccording to the fir lodged then the mlas and workers of the samajwadi party surrounded the guesthouse and went on a rampage angry over the bsp having broken ties with the sp and seeking out the bjp to form the government mayawati had to lock herself in a room while several of her mlas were captured and later claimed to have defected to the spin a career spanning over 44 years atiq a fivetime exmla and oneterm former mp now faces 101 criminal cases 54 of them under trial in different parts of the stateatiqs tryst with crime had begun much earlier at least a decade before he entered politicshis first runin with the law was in 1979 when he was booked for murder in prayagrajs khuldabad police station on november 10 1979 he was booked in another murder case in 1984five years later in 1989 atiqs terror spread after he was accused of murdering then corporator chand baba and won his first election as an mla from allahabad west as an independent after he retained his seat in the next two assembly elections as an independent the samajwadi party opened its doors to himin 1996 atiq won from allahabad west the fourth time as an sp candidateafter the sp showed atiq the door in 1998 he joined the apna dal ad in 1999 and contested from pratapgrah but lost he again won the allahabad west seat in 2002 assembly elections on the ad ticket in 2003 atiq returned to the sp fold and in 2004 won the phulpur lok sabha constituencyalong with his political clout his reign of terror also kept growing in the regionin 2004 in the bypoll held for the allahabad west seat after atiq had moved to the lok sabha bsp candidate raju pal defeated his brother ashraf fighting on an sp ticketin january 2005 raju pal was gunned down along with two of his associates and atiq was named as an accused along with ashraf and others ashraf now has 53 cases against him on the supreme courts orders the case was transferred to the cbi which filed a chargesheet in 2019 against 10 peoplefollowing raju pals murder a byelection was held for the allahabad west seat in 2005 where ashraf defeated bsp candidate puja pal the widow of raju pal in the 2007 elections ashraf again contested the assembly polls on an sp ticket but lost to puja pal of bsp ashraf was an accused in the raju pal murderfive years later in 2012 assembly elections atiq again tried his luck from apna dal from the same seat but lost to bsps puja pal widow of raju pal by a margin