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- Bulldozers, and the word bulldozer, found its way into the election and political lexicon of Uttar Pradesh, and further across India, between 2017 and 2022. While bulldozers are routinely used across India to remove illegal construction, the bulldozer in this case has been used as an extrajudicial tool, a power statement, against criminals and communal violence rioters and accused criminals. Following its usage in political messaging in Uttar Pradesh, the bulldozer was used in Madhya Pradesh to convey political messages aimed at showing a strong stance against criminals. Narratives conveyed that a lot of the usage of the bulldozer was itself communal in nature. Its rhetoric usage by chief minister Yogi Adityanath of the Bhartiya Janata Party started following the commencement of his first term in office from March 2017. By 2020 property belonging to numerous criminals including Vikas Dubey, and politician-strongmen and gangsters Mukhtar Ansari and Atique Ahmed had been demolished using bulldozers. The action against Dubey started after he and his associates killed eight policemen in July 2020 during an attempted arrest. The Yogi government claims of freeing up 67,000 acres (270 km2) of government land and other illegally occupied land by land mafia. The UP government issued certain directives related to the use of bulldozers, and also warned of their misuse. Yogi began his second term as chief minister in March 2022. In a similar manner, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, another state with a CM from BJP, began usage of the bulldozer in March 2022 against properties of mafia, and accused rapists and rioters. By late-April 2022 bulldozers had also been used on the property of rioters in Delhi and Gujarat, with politics and legal issues ensuing, including over anti-encroachment drives in Rajasthan, a Congress state, but in a BJP held municipality. In Uttarakhand rioters during Hanuman Jayanti processions were threatened with bulldozers parked in the vicinity of property owned by the accused. (en)
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- In Bold are locations where bulldozers were used in response. In Italics a threat to use bulldozers was seen. (en)
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- Amravati, MH (en)
- Baina, Vasco, GA (en)
- Bhagwanpur, Roorkee, UK (en)
- Holagunda, Kurnool, AP (en)
- Howrah and Bankura, WB (en)
- Hubli, KA; (en)
- Jahangirpuri, DL; (en)
- Khambat, GJ; (en)
- Khargone, MP; (en)
- Lohardaga, JH; (en)
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- We have a special machine which we are using for building expressways and highways. At the same time, we are using it to crush the mafia who exploited people to build their properties (en)
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- during state election campaigns, 2022 (en)
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- Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti violence in April 2022 (en)
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- Bulldozers, and the word bulldozer, found its way into the election and political lexicon of Uttar Pradesh, and further across India, between 2017 and 2022. While bulldozers are routinely used across India to remove illegal construction, the bulldozer in this case has been used as an extrajudicial tool, a power statement, against criminals and communal violence rioters and accused criminals. Following its usage in political messaging in Uttar Pradesh, the bulldozer was used in Madhya Pradesh to convey political messages aimed at showing a strong stance against criminals. Narratives conveyed that a lot of the usage of the bulldozer was itself communal in nature. (en)
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