1. Sakshi Maharaj won the 2014 general election from Unnao, Uttar Pradesh.
26 Facts About Sakshi Maharaj
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Sakshi Maharaj won Indian general election in 1991 from Mathura, 1996 and 1998 from Farrukhabad.
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Sakshi Maharaj was a member of Rajya Sabha from 2000 to 2006, before being suspended for corruption.
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Sakshi Maharaj has been at the center of controversies for his reportedly Islamophobic views.
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Sachchidanand Hari Sakshi was born in Sakshi Dham, Kasganj district, Uttar Pradesh.
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Sakshi Maharaj's father was Atmanandji Maharaj Premi and mother was Madalasa Devi Lodhi.
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Sakshi Maharaj belongs to the Lodhi community which has been categorised as an Other Backward Class in Uttar Pradesh.
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Sakshi Maharaj was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 from Mathura, 1996, and 1998 from Farrukhabad which has a Lodhi majority.
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Sakshi Maharaj has been involved in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and is currently under trial as one of the accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
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Sakshi Maharaj said the BJP's policies were not favourable to poorer and backward sections of the society.
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Back then, Sakshi Maharaj was an accused in the murder of Brahm Dutt Dwivedi, a close associate of Vajpayee.
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Sakshi Maharaj had expressed the desire to marry a colleague but Sakshi had objected to it.
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Sakshi Maharaj spent about a month in the Tihar jail custody awaiting trial.
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Sakshi Maharaj said he would remain in Samajwadi Party but support BJP candidates.
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On 21 March 2006, the Rajya Sabha voted to expel Sakshi Maharaj for violating the code of conduct while rejecting his apology.
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Sakshi Maharaj initially absconded but on 14 October 2009 he surrendered.
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The eyewitness said that he saw Sakshi Maharaj's brother pull the trigger and alleged that Sakshi Maharaj was behind the murder.
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Sakshi Maharaj served as the principal of Maharani Avanti Bai College which was owned by Sakshi.
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Sakshi Maharaj holds the title of Acharya Mahamandleshwar of Shri Nirmal Panchayati Akhada.
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Sakshi Maharaj is the director of Sakshi Maharaj Group which has 17 educational institutions in India and several ashrams.
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On 14 September 2015 in a speech in Kannauj, Sakshi Maharaj said the madrasas were creating terrorists and they encourage their students to carry out Love Jihad.
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On 6 January 2015 while addressing a gathering in Meerut, Sakshi Maharaj urged Hindu women to produce at least four children each to protect Hinduism in India and said Muslims practice polygyny and thus have a high birth rate.
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Sakshi Maharaj claimed that Gandhi eats beef and visited the temple without purifying himself.
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In May 2016, Sakshi Maharaj was at BJP worker Maidan Singh's house in Unnao after a police raid, where some of the family members including the girl were allegedly injured after they used force.
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However, according to some reports, the main controversy on Sakshi Maharaj was that he threatened to shoot the police who entered Singh's house.
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Sakshi Maharaj has been publishing the Hindi monthly Bhagwan Sandesh since 1972.