UP: BSP Leader Dies by Suicide; Family Says He Was Harassed by SDM
Harveer Singh was the tehsil head of the BSP and a resident of Rasoolpur Dhaka village.
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Badaun:Â A 40-year-old Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader killed himself by consuming a poisonous substance at a
tehsil office in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district after he was allegedly harassed by the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) and a revenue official over a land allotment issue, police said on Sunday.
According to the family members of 40-year-old Harveer Singh, he was the tehsil head of the BSP and a resident of Rasoolpur Dhaka village.
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December 28, 2020 03:06 IST
They were holding placards saying “Will not accept BJP’s insult to Bengalis”, “Insult to Amartya Sen is insult to Bengalis”.
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They were holding placards saying “Will not accept BJP’s insult to Bengalis”, “Insult to Amartya Sen is insult to Bengalis”.
Intellectuals of various fields on Sunday took part in a protest to express their support to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on the row over his family being in “illegal” possession of land at Visva-Bharati, and denounced the “dictatorial and autocratic” conduct of the central university towards him.
Poets Joy Goswami and Subodh Sarkar, singer Kabir Suman, painters Jogen Chowdhury and Suvaprasanna, theatre personality-turned-minister Bratya Basu and others assembled at the compound of the Academy of Fine Arts here to raise their voice on the issue.