 In 2014, he was taken back into the Samajwadi Party and fought the National Elections from the Shrawasti (Lok Sabha constituency).He managed to secure a quarter of the votes, but lost by nearly a lakh votes to Daddan Mishra of the BJP.On December 14, 2016, Atique and his henchmen had allegedly assaulted the staff members of Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences for taking action against two students who were debarred from taking examination after they were caught cheating.