Men sit on striped durries, sipping cold drink in disposable glasses, at the community hall of Bond village in Haryana바카라s Bhiwani district. Addressing the gathering is Sher Singh Rana, who was convicted of the 2001 murder of bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi. Rana was granted bail by the Delhi High Court in 2016 and has been participating in what he calls 바카라social activities바카라 since then. In a starched yellow kurta at the Bond gathering, he talks of unity between Hindu and Muslim Rajputs under a Rajput political banner, and about leveraging the political clout to help youth from the community find jobs.
With eyes on the assembly polls in Haryana later this year, he has started a 50-day tour called Rashtrawadi Janlok Parivartan Yatra to drum up support for demands such as capital punishment for rape of a girl below 12 years, securing of pastures, a farmers바카라 commission, and a law that promises a job to one person in each household. He wants to be remembered as somebody who got jobs for lakhs of people.
바카라I was framed, but I believe justice shall prevail and I바카라ll be acquitted,바카라 says Rana, though he was introduced to the gathering as the one who avenged the killing of 22 Rajputs by Phoolan Devi, who had in 1981 avenged her gang-rape by Rajput men of Behmai village. 바카라Whoever killed her did the right thing. I would have stood by her if she had killed those actually responsible for assaulting her, but she killed innocent men of the village,바카라 adds Rana.
Staying away from his family for over 15 years was tough, and property worth crores was sold to pay the lawyers, says Rana, who was in Afghanistan and whose two brothers were in jail when their father passed away in 2004. None of the sons could light the father바카라s pyre. An alumnus of Saint Gabriel Academy in Roorkee, Rana aspired to be an army officer바카라바카라but then I realised I had to do bigger things,바카라 he adds. Arrested first in 2001, he escaped from Delhi바카라s Tihar jail in 2004, and travelled to Bangladesh, Dubai and Afghanistan. In 2006, he was rearrested in Calcutta. He has written about these experiences in his Jail Diary: From Tihar to Kabul-Kandahar and claims a biopic is in the works and would be announced soon. Rana got married in February last year and has a seven-month-old daughter.
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