On Monday (9th September), Gaurakshak Bittu Bajrangi filed his nomination as an independent candidate from the NIT assembly segment in Faridabad. In an official statement, District Election Officer (DEO) Vikram Singh confirmed that Bittu Bajrangi has filed his nomination as an independent from NIT Faridabad seat.
Bajrangi addressed local media after filing his nomination. He said that the public has given him the ticket to contest and if elected he would continue to raise his voice for Dharma, protecting daughters from ‘Love Jihad’ among other issues.
Faridabad, Haryana: Bittu Bajrangi, an accused in the Nuh violence case, has filed as an independent candidate for Faridabad’s NIT Assembly. He criticized current leaders, pledged to address issues like ‘love jihad,’ and anticipated more legal challenges if elected pic.twitter.com/OHzlNZxCNt
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Who is Bittu Bajrangi
Bittu Bajrangi alias Rajkumar Panchal is a Hindu activist. He is the founder of the Gau Raksha Bajrang Force. For a long time, he has been facing threats from Islamists who had once targeted his family members.
It is pertinent to note that last year, on 31st July, violence broke out in Haryana’s Nuh, Mewat district during the ‘Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra’ which was organised by VHP. A planned attack was unleashed by Islamists against thousands of Hindus participating in the Shobha Yatra. However, the Islamists tried to pin the blame for the anti-Hindu violence on Bittu Bajrangi and paint a target on his back.
Since then, Bajrangi has been receiving death threats with those behind the threats asking him to “take his slippers back (Chappal lekar jao)”. Strikingly, the code ‘chappal’ was used by the perpetrators to remind the Hindu activists about the slippers Hindus had left outside the temple when the Islamist mob attacked them during Nuh violence last year.
In the meantime, he was also arrested in a case of a clash with the police. At present, Bittu Bajrangi is out of jail on bail. In this case, all Hindu organisations supported him. Initially, the rumour spread rapidly that Bittu Bajrangi was associated with the Nuh violence, but the police made it clear that action was taken against Bittu Bajrangi in a case not related to the Nuh violence, but in a different case of a clash with the police.
Voting for 90 Haryana assembly seats will be held on 5th October with the counting of votes to be undertaken on 8th October.
