of 8885 votes he also contested the lok sabha elections in 2014 from shravasti on the sp ticket but losteven in face of repeated defeats atiqs political ambitions were far from over he filed nomination from the varanasi constituency against prime minister narendra modi in 2019 from jail where he had been since 2017 but managed to get only 855 votesnamed as the kingpin of interstate gang no 227 in police files he was shifted from bareilly in 2019 to an ahmedabad jail on the orders of the supreme court in january this year atiqs wife shaista joined the bsp in presence of senior party leaders and even announced to contest urban civic polls however since she was named in the murder of umesh pal and carries a cash reward of rs 25000 shaista is still elusivein the ongoing drive against gangsters under the yogi adityanath government properties worth over rs 1186 crore belonging to atiq and his family members have been attached under the gangsters act once wielding total control over real estate dealings in prayagraj kaushambi noida lucknow and other parts of the country atiq and his family are now at the receiving end of the law of the land