Jammu, April 7 -- Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday visited the family of mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari at his home in Ghazipur, and said he hoped the truth of his death will come out and the family will get justice.

"It's shocking that Mukhtar Ansari himself made apprehensions that he is being given poison (in jail). I hope the government will bring truth (of death) before us and the family will get justice," Yadav told reporters after meeting Ansari's family.

Ansari, a five-time MLA from Mau, died due to cardiac arrest, on March 28, as per the government. However, the family members allege that he was given poison inside the jail.

Yadav, who was in Lucknow to console the family, said that after the BJP came ...