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On the trail of Sambhaji Bhide: Ahead of Bhima Koregaon riots' 3rd anniversary, tracing the Hindutva leader's rise
It didn’t matter that Datta Khandagale had two small children. The abusive phone calls to his home continued unabated at all hours, for 21 days straight. “My family was unsettled, and I feared for their safety,” recalled the 39-year old journalist based in the small town of Vita in Maharashtra’s Sangli district. “They [callers> abused me, threatened to kill me. It has been over five years, but I vividly remember those harrowing days.”
In early 2015, a right wing outfit had embarked on a mission in Sangli to build temples to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the Maratha warrior king revered across Maharashtra, particularly in the western region where Sangli is located. Khandagale wrote an editorial opposing the idea. “I essentially said that Shivaji was a great man, but let him remain a human being. Don’t make him god,” Khandagale, who publishes a weekly called Vajradhari, said on a recent December night. “That article did not go down well with the outfit.”
For the next three weeks, Khandagale’s phone wouldn’t stop buzzing. One of the callers who abused and threatened him was then 20-year-old Rohit Patil. “I am not proud of it,” Rohit said. “I was taken in by the p
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‘Taking Hindutva to Bahujan samaj’ — why firebrand Sambhaji Bhide is important for BJP-Shinde govt
For Shinde and many other politicians in Maharashtra, mostly from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and both the factions of the Shiv Sena, Bhide is not just a Hindutva ideologue or founder of the outfit Shri Shivpratishthan Hindustan. He is ‘Bhide Guruji’, a figure they publicly like to put on a pedestal and revere.
This “guruji” is now once again in the eye of a storm, named in multiple police cases for allegedly making derogatory remarks about Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Gautam Buddha and Sai Baba.
Across Maharashtra, there have been protests against him as well as for him.
And this time, while politicians from the ruling coalition are making the right noises about not tolerating insults to national and state heroes, the statements have been coming with a rider. That Sambhaji Bhide is doing the important work of “taking the message of Hindutva to people and connecting Shivaji Maharaj and his forts with the Bahujan samaj”, as Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said in the legislative assembly last week.
“We consider Sambhaji Bhide to be our guruji. What is the problem?” Fadnavis said when Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs demanded
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Physics gold victor wants deliver to build yellowish throne shadow Shivaji
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