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Both Uttar Pradesh and Bihar – that have been traditional hunting grounds for baahubalis – are now experiencing a gradual change of heart. The Ansari brothers, Mukhtar and Afzal, who once held most of eastern UP to ransom, have suffered crushing defeats. Mukhtar was defeated by BJP’s Murli Manohar Joshi in Varanasi and Afzal by SP candidate Radha Mohan Singh in Ghazipur. BSP candidate Unnao Arun Shankar Shukla alias Anna Shukla, accused by even Mayawati in the June 2, 1995 Lucknow guest house case, lost to political novice Annu Tandon. And Akshay Pratap Singh, the Samajwadi Party candidate from Pratapgarh, who is the uncle of baahubali Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya, was likewise drubbed.

Good won over evil in Faizabad as well; the voters there had no trouble picking clean Congressman Nirmal Khatri over Mitrasen Yadav who is accused of nearly a dozen heinous crimes. Western UP’s D. P. Yadav was chosen by Mayawati to counter arch rival SP. But this time it didn’t help to pit baahubali against baahubali, and DP lost to Dharmendra Yadav from Badaun. Voters in Sravasti too took no time to tell BSP’s Rizwan Zaheer what they thought of a contestant accused of human trafficking.

As we said, only some of the baahubalis have been overcome. Their overall number has actually risen. In the 15th Lok Sabha, for instance, Dhananjay Singh (BSP candidate from Jaunpur) will share space with the others.

Dhananjay, whose criminal career took off during his student days, has been accused of murdering doctors, lawyers, teachers and policemen. (In this election the body of the Justice Party candidate contesting against him was found hanging from a tree, and the general feeling is that he had to have a hand in it.) But that did not affect his chances. In Kaisarganj constituency too, his baahubali reputation helped Brijbhushan SP’s Sharan Singh. Singh is a four-term MP! The brother of dacoit Dadua too had no trouble grabbing the Mirzapur seat. The sons of Harishankar Tiwari alias Baba were in the fray in eastern UP, where the elder one turned lucky in the Kabirnagar constituency.

Good enough, what? With bare bhaiyya rubbing shoulders with the mighty in Parliament, it should be relatively easy work for the younger to carry on with the unfinished work!

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