Ashok Veer Vikram Singh, also known as Bhaiya Raja was the member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was convicted in two criminal cases. [1]
Ashok Veer Vikram Singh, also known as Bhaiya Raja was the member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was convicted in two criminal cases. [1]
He was a politician who later rose to a fearsome image in Chhatarpur and Panna districts of Bundelkhand region in Madhya Pradesh. [1] [2]
He was son-in-law of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jujhar Singh Bundela. He was elected to Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly as an independent candidate from Pawai in 1990 with a record margin of over 42,000 votes, although he was in jail at the time, in connection to a murder case. [3] Bhaiya Raja vacated the seat for his close confidante - Mukesh Nayak, and got him a nomination from Indian National Congress in 1993. Nayak became a minister in Digvijay Singh cabinet and people would still vouch that without Bhaiya Raja's support, Nayak would never have won the election.
After a fallout with Nayak, Bhaiya Raja contested as a candidate of Samajwadi Party and again won in 1998. He was also chosen as the leader of Samajwadi Party legislatures in the assembly.
He eventually lost to Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Brijendra Singh in 2003.
His wife Asha Rani won as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party from Bijawar constituency in 2008. [1]
He was accused in more than twenty cases. [3]
In 1989, he was accused of murder of Siddharth Rao, a notorious criminal of Nainital and the nephew of former home minister of India Buta Singh. He was relieved of all charges regarding the case in 1990. [1]
His domestic help, Tijji Bai, killed herself at his Bhopal home in November 2007. He and his wife Asha Rani were accused of abetment in suicide. Later they were convicted and sentenced to jail for ten years. [4] [1] [5] [6] [2]
Vasundhara Bundela, a student of fashion design, was found dead at Misrod near Bhopal on 11 December 2009. He was arrested in 2009. He, along with his four aides, was convicted of her murder. He was sentenced to life in 2013. He was imprisoned in Bhopal jail.
He suffered a brain haemorrhage and was hospitalised on 15 December 2014. He died on 19 December 2014 at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. His last rites were performed at his native place Gharwar a day later. [1] [7] [6]
Bundelkhand is a geographical and cultural region and a proposed state and also a mountain range in central & North India. The hilly region is now divided between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, with the larger portion lying in the latter state.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan, is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from 2020 to 2023 and previously from 2005 to 2018 and a Member of Legislative Assembly in Madhya Pradesh from Budhni since 2006 and previously from 1990 to 1991. He is the longest serving Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
Arif Beg (1935–2016) was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. He hailed from Indore in Madhya Pradesh state. His father, Qaramat ‘Pahalwan’ Baig, had reached Indore from Afghanistan.
Kirti Vardhan Singh is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He is currently serving as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha for the Gonda constituency. He is locally known by the alias Raja Bhaiya, being connected with erstwhile Taluqdari of Mankapur.
Satya Pal Singh Baghel is an Indian politician. A member of Bharatiya Janata Party, he got elected to 17th Lok Sabha from Agra. He previously was a member of Samajwadi Party, in which he got elected to Lok Sabha thrice and to Rajya Sabha once as a member of Bahujan Samajwadi Party.
Dharam Pal Yadav, also known as D. P. Yadav, is an Indian politician and a former cabinet minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He belongs to Sarfabad village of Noida in Gautam Buddha Nagar district. D. P. Yadav has served 4 times as MLA. He was also a Member of Parliament (MP) in Lok Sabha and MP in Rajya Sabha.
The 2007 Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election was held during April–May 2007. It was held to elect a government for the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
Puran Singh Bundela is an Indian politician. He is a three-time Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Mahroni constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
Raghuraj Pratap Singh,, commonly known as Raja Bhaiya, is an Indian politician, currently serving as a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly, representing the Kunda assembly constituency of Pratapgarh. He has been elected as an MLA for the seventh consecutive time since 1993 from the same constituency. In 2018, he founded and became the national president of Jansatta Dal Loktantrik party. Singh has held various Cabinet Minister positions in the Government of Uttar Pradesh of both Samajwadi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party administrations.
Asha Rani is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. She was a member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India until convicted on charges of having abducted a maid and abetted in her death by burning.
Chhatarpur Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state.
Bijawar Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state.
Chandla Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951 as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state, but it was abolished in 1956. It came into existence again in 1976. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes since 2008, following delimitation of the legislative assembly constituencies.
Munna Bajrangi or Prem Prakash Singh was an Indian politician, a known contract killer and a gang leader from Eastern Uttar Pradesh. In the two decades he was active, he is associated with more than 40 incidents such as murder, attempted murder, and extortion. In 2009, he was jailed for the murder of MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005 and another BJP leader Ramchandra Singh. For many years, he supported the Samajwadi Party headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav, but the gang switched to Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party in the mid-2000s.
Raj Rajeshwar Pratap Singh Judev also known as Raja Bundela is an Indian actor, producer, politician and civil activist.Presently He is the Vice President of Bundelkhand Vikas Board,Uttar Pradesh. In films, he is notable for appearances in Swarg, Shola Aur Shabnam, Pratha, Namestey LA, and Son of Flower. He was an actor/producer until the late 2000s, when he became a politician interested in civil rights and statehood for his native Bundelkhand in India.
Charkhari is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the entire sub-district of Kulpahar and part of sub-district Charkhari in the Mahoba district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is mainly a rural constituency having small urban centers of Kulpahar, Charkhari, Panwari, Jaitpur and Kharela.
Raja Mahendra Aridaman Singh is an Indian politician and a member of the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in India. He represents the Bah constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Samajwadi Party political party until 15 January 2017 when he joined the rival Bharatiya Janata Party.
Vikram Saini is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and of the 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh representing the Khatauli assembly constituency. In 2022, he was convicted and sentenced to 2-years in prison in the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case.
Kuldeep Singh Sengar is an Indian politician and former member of Legislative Assembly belonging to the Bhartiya Janta Party from Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh who has been convicted of rape, murder, attempt to murder, criminal conspiracy and criminal intimidation. He is the main defendant in the Unnao rape case and was booked under the POCSO Act. He is also accused of killing three people, including the victim's father in police custody and later her aunts by a conspired truck accident. A Delhi District and Sessions Court upheld an investigation conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that had ruled out any foul play in the Unnao rape survivor's accident in 2019.
Madan Bhaiya, born Madan Singh Kasana, is an Indian politician. Bhaiya is a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and as of 2022 represents the Khatauli Assembly constituency. Bhaiya has a reputation as a folk hero in his area and is often referred to as Bahubali or Bhaiya Ji Madan. He has been linked to gang violence and as of 2013 had over half a dozen alleged murder charges. He travels in a bulletproof car along with 2–3 pilot cars containing his security detail. Bhaiya previously served four terms as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Khekada Assembly constituency of Baghpat district.