The AIMIM on Friday offered to field gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Anasri in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
Earlier, BSP supremo Mayawati said her party will make efforts to not field 'bahubali' or mafia candidates in the upcoming polls and announced that Ansari, who is lodged in a jail in Banda, will not be given a ticket from Mau again.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen's national spokesperson Syed Asim Waqar said the party's doors are open for Ansari.
Waqar asked other Muslims also not to "purchase tickets" from any other political party as they will ensure their defeat even after taking money from them.
On September 7, jailed gangster and former MP Atiq Ahmad and his wife had joined AIMIM in presence of its chief Asaduddin Owaisi.
Defending his decision to induct Ahmad, who has several criminal cases lodged against him, AIMIM's chief Asaduddin Owaisi had said that some BJP leaders were also facing criminal cases.