There is a page dedicated to Dubey on social media which addresses him as ‘Brahmin Shiromani’ or Brahmin Supreme and there are many on social media with right-wing and Sanatan ideologies, who have supported his actions.

The Kanpur Nagar Police Station also put out a statement saying that some people on social media had put up posts on social media praising Dubey. In light of this, there were two FIRs registered at the Fazalganj police station and the Kakadev police station.

थाना चौबेपुर में शहीद हुए 08 पुलिस कर्मियों की घटना के विषय में अत्यन्त ही आपत्तिजनक पोस्ट सोशल मीडिया पर डाले जाने पर #kanpurnagarpolice पुलिस द्वारा की गयी कार्यवाही के सम्बन्ध में श्रीमान् पुलिस अधीक्षक, दक्षिण महोदया द्वारा दी गयी बाईट। @Uppolice @adgzonekanpur @igrangekanpur pic.twitter.com/TbTIUyftH5

— Kanpur Nagar Police (@kanpurnagarpol) July 4, 2020

The police has said that it had arrest the person against whom the case was registered at Kakadev police station – one Kilkil Sar who had posted the following –

However, Kilkil Sar, later posted that his satire was taken literally and that though there were efforts to book him under stringent charges, he had been released on bail. However, News 18 reported that sources said Sachan was close to Vikas Dubey and it was under his patronage that Kilkil’s coaching centre flourished.

Political Connections

Dubey, who has more than 60 criminal cases registered against him, has enjoyed the patronage of several political parties – right from Samajwadi Party to the BJP.

उत्तरप्रदेश सरकार के क़ानून मंत्री ब्रजेश पाठक और विकास दुबे एक साथ। ये रिश्ता क्या कहलाता है? pic.twitter.com/7Q2paPHPql

— Surya Pratap Singh IAS Rtd. (@suryapsingh_IAS) July 3, 2020

Accused of attempted murder, dacoity, extortion and kidnapping among other charges in 2001, Dubey had allegedly played a part in the murder of BJP politician and Minister of State, Sanotsh Shukla who was shot in the police station premises. As per News 18, he had surrendered before the court, but was granted bail after a few months as the witnesses turned hostile.

In 2001, he was named in the murder of Assistant Manager of Tarachand Inter College, Siddheshwar Pandey. The murder allegedly took place in the Shivli police area of Kanpur. In the same year, he was named in a conspiracy of the murder of Rambabu Yadav within the Shivli jail. In 2004, he was allegedly accused in the murder of cable businessman Dinesh Dubey and in 2018, he was said to have carried out a deadly attack on his cousin Anurag, from the confines of the Mati jail.

While in Jail, he also won the Shivrajpur Nagar Panchayat election. Hailing from Bikru village in Chaubepur, he is said to have established an army of youths loyal to him and has been involved in various crimes like robbery, dacoity and murder in various parts of Kanpur.

In a video from 2017, speaking to Aaj Tak, Dubey mentions about his political connections. In the video he calls BSP his ‘home’ and says that though other parties are asking him to be a member, he couldn’t leave BSP, his ‘home’ where he was a ‘master’ and everyone knew him by name.

https://aajtak.intoday.in/video/uttar-pradesh-most-wanted-ganster-vikas-dubey-political-connection-1-1207484.html?jwsource=cl

In another video, Dubey has also named BJP MLAs Bhagwati Prasad Sagar and Abhijit Sanga and other authorities who allegedly asked the police to release him in a murder case he was apprehended for in 2017.

As the investigation in the recent Kanpur encounter heats up, Dubey remains absconding. The call for his arrest is growing, especially as the history of his political connections is unraveling as time passes. While some are hailing Dubey for his actions, there is a larger majority, Brahmins included, who have distanced themselves from him. Dubey’s journey seems to have begun and flourished as a result of nasty caste politics combined with the patronage of those in power. However, whether the same will be repeated given the outcry of the public for his arrest, remains to be seen.

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At an event organized by the Kolkata Press Club Dilip Ghosh said, “What surprises me is that people were dying after standing in line for two to three hours. But now women and children are sitting in temperatures as low as 4-5 degrees Celsius but nobody is dying! What nectar did they have? I am astonished! What is their incentive (for protesting)?”
 

“It is surprising that in #ShaheenBagh, day after day women are sitting at night with children, in 4-5 degree, but no one is dying…,” said Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh.
It doesn’t cost anything to behave like a human, but if you don’t you think like a demon! #CAAProtests #NRC pic.twitter.com/I6x750dclg

— Rashtriya Janata Dal (@RJDforIndia) January 29, 2020

Hinting at a possible motive behind the protest he said, “I find it very interesting. People are very excited about Shaheen Bagh because women and children are protesting there day and night. Some say they are getting 500 rupees every day. This may or may not be the case. But the truth about the Popular Front of India has come out. The truth about Shaheen Bagh will also emerge. We will make sure it does.”

The women-led protests at Shaheen Bagh against the CAA have been going on for over a month. This is not the first time that Dilip Ghosh or other BJP ministers have spewed hate or made inexplicable comments against the protestors.

Dilip Ghosh had earlier called theatre personalities protesting against the CAA “spineless devils” and “parasites”.

BJP MP Parvesh Verma at an interview had said, “Lakhs of people gather there [Shaheen Bagh]. People of Delhi will have to think and take a decision. They will enter your houses, rape your sisters and daughters, and kill them.” Considering that Shaheen Bagh protests are led by women, this was a particularly bizarre and illogical comment.

The UP Shia Waqf Board Waseem Rizvi chief had also called the women at Shaheen Bagh ‘badkirdaar auratein’ insinuating that they took money to stage protests; apart from going ahead to question their ‘character’.
 

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On November 29, when the news of the horrific rape-murder of Hyderabad vet Dr. Priyanka Reddy broke, Chhikara took to Facebook to express his feelings on live stream. On Facebook live, he showed the picture of one of the four persons accused in the case and asked his followers to remember his face. He requested his followers to save the picture,

He requests that the fellow inmates of the accused in the Hyderabad Jail to assault him, saying that this make them famous. Killing this person will be such a pure deed that it will be as if they bathed in the Ganga.

Chhikara incorrectly claims that when a public kills a man, they cannot be incriminated for murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. “Let them make a case against me.. but this dog needs to die,” he said.“Beshak se mere upar case darj ho jaaye.. lekin aise kutte ko maar de.”

He further says that the hands of administration are tied, which is why they can’t do anything to this man, or encourage you to do this man.  “But I’m telling you, until dogs like these die, these rapes and murders will keep happening.”

His livestream has 2.5 million views at the time of publication. With such claims, Chhikara continues to perpetuate the belief system that due process of law can be selectively done away with if enough people believe a person deserves to die.

Active since at least 2017, he runs “Harish Chhikara Garib Jan Sewa Trust” and claims to run philanthropic ventures.  A quick glance into his timeline shows him offering money to people in need as part of his social work – a widow to pay for the weddings of her daughters, for example. 

The “about” description of his page says, “Our aim is that the society should move away from the battle of religion and caste and work for the benefit of people and nature!”

The video can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/harshchhikaraofficial/videos/1550546758430901/

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The if only’s make for tired reading in politics. But in an India, groaning under the double-edged sword of a supremacist RSS-BJP government –brute majoritarianism and utter non-performance socio-economically–it may be wise, now, to plod this much beaten path. And count the figures, add up the differences so as to learn lessons for 2019.

In a nail biting finish that went on past midnight on counting day, it appeared more than certain that the Indian National Congress would form the government in this politically critical Hindi heartland state. But what if the Congress had swept back, adding say about 25-28 more to its already winning tally of 114 and clocking up more seats making this a whopping, or at least clearer, 139 plus seat win? What if BSP had then won three more and the Samajwadi Party (SP) two more taking the tally to 149? This would have been possible, the figures show, if there had been a sensible seat sharing arrangement (alliance) of the three. Without this, the tension mounted and the grand old party was not sure until the very end whether it would make a comeback in Bhopal.

Election Commission of India (ECI) figures show that while NOTA accounted for a not insignificant 1.4 % of the votes polled in MP, BSP returned an impressive 5.8% of the vote share. The SP has today, 1.3% of the votes and the AAP 0.7% (the total vote share of these three formations is around 8 %). Clearly an alliance would have helped all around. There are some seats however where it is a Brahmin or Thakur candidate (of both dominant parties) in first two positions; here the BSP and SP may have had to transfer votes to who they see as politically hostile castes.

Let’s start with Agar, the administrative head quarters for the Agar Malwa district. Situated on the Indore Kota highway and known since Mughal times for the historically rich town of Mandu, a much visited tourist spot, Vipin Wankhede of the INC could have won if such an alliance was in place. He polled 79,656 votes as opposed to the winner from the BJP, Manohar Untwal who won 82,146 votes.

Why? The fact that two spoilers, Govind Suryavanshi (BSP) and Babulal Malviya (AAP) won 1978 and 2039 votes respectively. The difference between the first two candidates is just 2,490 votes.
Amarpatnam in Satna district tells a similar story. An old Garhi town with the Jagannath Swami temple, it connects Rewa to Maihar. Check out the final figures there. The winner from the BJP, Ramkhelawan Patel won 59,836 votes and the runner up from the INC, Dr Rajendra Kumar Singh (Dada Bhai) 56,089. The third place is held by Chhangelal Kol who polled an impressive 37,918 votes. Imagine if number two and three had fought together ? There is more. The CPI candidate,  Comrade Rajdhani Singh won 1427 votes and the Samajwadi party’s Amit Kumar Tiwari won 1495 votes.

Then let’s move to Ashta in Sehore district ruled by Mirza Alam Baig in Britsh times and the story is similar. Gopal Singh Engineer of the INC clocked an impressive 86,248 votes at number 2 while the number three was Kamal Singh Chauhan of the Prajatantrik Samadhan party with 17,577 votes and Shailesh Vaidya of the BSP got 4487 votes. The winner Raghunath Singh Malviya of the BJP got 92,292 votes.

Turn to Ater, where the winner Arvind Singh Bhadoria from the BJP has got 58928 votes and Hemant Satyadev Katare from the INC 53950 votes. If the votes of Sanjeev Baghel from the BSP could have been counted in alliance (he got 16585 votes) the victory would have been theirs.

Voting figures from Balaghat tell a similar story. The INC candidate, Vishveshwar Bhagat at number three got 28,701 votes and the Samajwadi Party’s  runner up, Anubha Munjare got 45822 numbers that put together cold have defeated the BJP whose candidate, Gaurishanker Chaturbhuj Bisen got 73,476 votes if in the alliance SP could have been given the ticket.

Bandhavgarh tells a similar decisive story with three players, the Indian National Congress (Dhyan Singh got 55255 votes), the Gondwana Gantantra Party’s Ram Milan Baiga (9854 votes) and the BSP’s Shivprasad Kol 6936 votes totalling more than the BJP’s Shivnarayan Singh’s 59,158 votes.

In Bina, the difference between number one and two is as low as 632 votes. Imagine an alliance where the INC’s Shahshi Kathoria (57196 votes) and BSP’s Ahirwar Surendra Kumar (6889 votes) could be totalled: Mahesh Rai of BJP who won just 57828 votes would surely have lost.

 Chandla in MP is one more such constituency: Rajesh Kumar Prajapati of the BJP who squeaked through with 41227 votes would have had to sit in the opposition benches if the INC and BSP had fought together. The INC’s runner up, Anuragi Hariprasad (Gopi Master) got 40050 votes and the BSP’s Ahirwar Pushpendra Kumar got an impressive 25739 votes.

Then again Churhat where the BJP’s Sharadendu Tiwari won with 71909 votes and Ajay Arjun Singh got 65507 votes, Vivek Kol of the BSP got 2997 votes and Anand Pandey of the CPI who got 1961 votes where the fight was really close.

In Deotalab, an alliance where the BSP’s seat share is more would have seen it getting one more seat if number three, INC who’s candidate, Adv Vidya Wati Patel’s score of 30,383 could have added to the score card. The BSP’s Seema Jaiveer Singh Sengar is the runner up with 43963 seats and Girish Gautam of the BJP the winner with 45043 votes.

Come to Devsar where again the BSP at number four polled 14464 votes (Shiv Shankar Prasad with 14464 votes), Gondvana Gantantra Party at number three (Surendra Prajapati with 18320 votes). If this tally could have been added to the runner up from the INC, Baanshmani Prasad Verma who got 52617 votes, BJP’s Subhash Ram Cahiritra who got 63295 votes would have been defeated.

Dhouhani tells a similar story with the GGP coming third with a significant 19457 (Rupnarayan Singh Poya) votes and BSP (Awadh Pratap Singh) at number four with 9062 votes ate into the opposition kitty: INC’s Kamlesh Singh got 54202 and the winner, Kunwar Singh Tekam of the BJP got 57995.

Garoth is another seat where there is a narrow margin of victory, INC’s Subhash Kumar Sojatia clocked up 73838 votes, the BSP’s Jagdish Rangothia 1696 votes when the winner from the BJP, Devilal Dhakad got 75946 votes. Come to Gwalio Rural with its own stunning tale. It is BSP’s Sahab Singh Gurjar who is less than two thousand votes behind the BJP’s winning candidate, Bharat Singh Khushwaha who got 51033 votes and INC’s Madanlal Kushwah at number three also pulls a not insignificant 38199 votes.

Indore-5 where the BJP’s Mahendra Hardia narrowly won with 1,17,836 votes saw a tough fight put up by INC’s Satyanarayan Patel who got 1,16,703. BSP’s Dongar Singh Goyal got 1422 votes and AAP’s Shailendra Kumari Ranawat got 878. Not a clear-cut win but close.

Jabera leaves no such doubts. The winner who is BJP’s Dharmendra Bhav Singh Lodhi could notch up 48,901 votes and the UNC’s Pratap Singh 45,416 votes. But look at what both the GGP and BSP pulled in here: Arvind Pratap Singh Judev of the GGP got 10,490 votes and Delan Singh Dhurve of the BSP got 10,355 votes.

 Jaitpur tells a similarly decisive tale. BSP’s candidate is at number four, Mohadal Singh Pav who got 6,141 votes and GGP’s Bharat Singh Oladi at number three with 11,498 votes. The difference between the winner, Manisha Singh (BJP) votes at 74,279 and the INC’s Uma Dhurvey (70,063)–both women — is far far less than of the post poll allies had fought the elections together.

Jaora again saw BJP’s Rajendra Pandey (64,503) beating KK Singh Kalukheda(63,992) of the INC by just 511 votes. Add AAP’s 1241 votes to the tally (Jakir Hussein) and BSP’s (Bhanwar Singh Jhala) 880 votes and there would be another story.

Let’s go to Khargapur where Rahul Singh Lodhi of the BJP won with 63,066 votes and the runner up from the INC, Chanda Surendra Singh Gour got 51,401 votes. The BSP’s Ajay Yadav, got 15,366 vote at number three.  Similarly, Birendra Raghuvanshi of the BJP had a narrow win with 72,450 votes when the INC’s Mahendra Ramsingh Yadav got 71,730 votes and the BSP’s Ashok Sharma got 16,483 votes–a scenario which would have Congress another seat if the pre poll alliance had been in place.

GGP’s Manish Patel is number three in Maihar assembly seat with an impressive 33,397 votes and BSP’s Nagendra Singh got 18418 votes neither an insignificant tally. Now look at the INC, runner up at number two with Shrikant Chaturvedi getting 51,893 vots and the winner Narayan Tripathi of the BJP getting 54887 votes. The story is clear.

Nagod tells a similar tale: BSP’s Advocate Rambhihari has won 22,428 votes and GGP’s Ramsajeevan Kol 1,934 votes (third and fourth place). BJP has won with its candidate, Nagendra Singh getting 54,647 votes, about twelve hundred more than the INC’s Yadvendra Singh who got 53,403 votes.

It s the Samajwadi Party (SP) that would have benefitted from a collective battle in Niwari: Meera Deepak Yadav at number two got 40,901 votes, BSP’s Ganesh Prasad Kushwaha 21,444 votes and the INC’s Ahir Captain Surendra Singh 12,221 votes. The winner, BJP’s Anil Jain got 49,738 votes.

In Panna, the SP is at number 5 with its candidate a small spoiler grabbing 3,291 votes and the BSP the bigger one with Anupama Charam Singh Yadav getting 22,818 votes. The INC lost here with Shivjeet Singh getting 47,651 votes and the winner Brihendra Pratap Singh getting 68,359 votes.

The figures of Paraswada are similarly telling and impressive for the opposition candidates. Both INC at number three with its Madhu Bhagat getting 47,476 votes and the SP at number two (Kankar Munjare getting 47,787 votes) have done well. BJP’s winning candidate, Ram Kishore got 57,395 votes and the BSP was at number four with its candidate, Mukesh Bouddh getting 3886 votes.
In Pawai too its these four players who got the highest four votes: BJP;s Prahlad Lodhi (79,647 votes),  INC’s Pandit Mukesh Nayak (55,967 votes), SP;s Bhuwan Vikram Singh (22,384 votes) and BSP’s Sita Ram Patel Advocate (14,381 votes). At number five is the GGP’s Mahipal Singh with 9913 votes.

Jugul Kishore Bagri of the BJP from Raigaon won with a decisive 65,910 votes but the INC’s Kalpana Verma with 48,489 votes and BSP’s Usha Chaudhary with 16,677 votes and AAP with 1578 votes could have put up a significant fight. The CPI-M’s KK Shukla polled a poor 1,948 votes at number four in Rampur Baghelan while the INC’s Ramshankar Payasi at number three ( 42,501 votes) and Ramlakhan Singh Patel of the BSP (53,129 votes) were decisive. Vikram Singh of the BJP got a mere 68,816 votes. The BSP could have got this seat with INC’s help.

Semariya in MP, similarly sees the BSP’s Pankaj Singh clock a strong 38,477 at number three. The INC with Triyugi Narayan Shukla gets 40,113 votes while the winner, BJP’s KP Tripathi gets 47,889 votes. Sihoria again has INC at number two with Khiladi Singh  wining 66,489 votes. However add to this the BSP’s 6,028 votes (Smt Babita Gautiya) and GGP’s Maahu Singh Paraste (5937 votes) and the picture changes, again.

If there is one sear where the AAP can be proud it is in Singarouli where at number three it gets as many as 32,167 votes. Again however INC is number two with Renu Shah getting 32,980 votes but the real story us when you add the BSP’s to the tally (Suresh Shahwal getting 15,044 votes) and the SP (Shikha Singh) getting 4680 votes and the CPI’s Ashok Kumar Dubey getting 1892 votes.

It is the SP’s Pradeep Singh Patna who is at number four in Sirmour with 11,144 votes and BSP’s Ramgarib Banwasi at number three with 18,466 votes. Dr Aruna Vivek Twari of the INC got 36,042 votes while the BJP’s Divyaraj Singh won with 49,443 votes.

In Teonthar assembly constituency again the BSP gets an impressive 17,396 votes with its candidate, Geeta Rajmani Majhi and the INC’s Ramashankar Singh getting 47,386 votes. The BJP’s Shyam Lal Dwivedi won with 52,729 votes.

Again in Tikamgarh, it is BSP and SP who are at number three and four winning 9,793 (Dr Vinod Kumar Rai) and 2,046 votes (Kushwaha Chhakkey Lal) while Yogendra Singh of the INC at number two got 62,783 votes; the winner Rakesh Giri got 66,958 votes.

In Vijaypur it is Seetaram of the BJP who makes the tally with 63,331 votes while the INC’s Ramniwas Rawat with 60,491 votes and BSP’s Babulal Mebra with 35,628 votes is at number three.

Lessons to be learned when the Opposition returns to the drawing board to set in a strategy for the 2019 Lok sabha election.
 
 

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The said wedding took place on Monday and the organisers say only chicken and fish were served. However, on Tuesday, animal remains resembling hooves were found by a few villagers who immediately presumed that a bovine slaughter had taken place and beef had been served at the wedding. Villagers had mobilised crowds from nearby villages and together they all went on a rampage, destroying a looting homes of Muslim families, forcing many families to flee leaving behind whatever meagre possessions they may have had. Some others stayed put but escaped unhurt by locking themselves in strong rooms.

“People broke into my house and ransacked it. They broke everything. I have a family of 12 and we survived because we locked ourselves in an inner room which the rioters could not enter,” says Gulshan Bano, a resident of the village. “We are safe now and luckily no one was hurt,” she says.

 
It was almost identical for Asif Ansari who also locked his family into a room which the rioters could not enter as they were unable to break the door. “When I saw the mob approaching, I made sure my entire family and I stayed locked up in a safe room in the house. The rioters became frustrated when they could not break the door, so they started pelting stones. They managed to break a few window panes and some rocks fell inside the house,” he says. His two neighbours were not that lucky. “Two young boys who live in the house next door were beaten up by the rampaging mob,” he says. Ansari and his family have now left the village for a few days and are at what he calls a ‘safe place’.
 
Following this attack, Section 144 was imposed in Nawadih village in Domchand block, making it illegal for people to assemble in groups. This was done in a bid to control the violence. Koderma Superintendent of Police Shivani Tiwar said, “We have arrested seven persons in this connection. The situation is under control now. We have sent the hooves for forensic test and can confirm only after receiving a report.”
 

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