This story is from October 16, 2020

Bihar polls: Ex-DGP is like a ‘brother’ to BJP’s Buxar candidate

Launching his election campaign from the Nariyare Baba Temple at Barkagaon under Umar panchayat recently, BJP’s Buxar candidate Parshuram Chaturvedi urged his supporters to vote for him in the upcoming state assembly polls so that he may emerge victorious.
Bihar polls: Ex-DGP is like a ‘brother’ to BJP’s Buxar candidate
Parshuram Chaturvedi
BUXAR: Launching his election campaign from the Nariyare Baba Temple at Barkagaon under Umar panchayat recently, BJP’s Buxar candidate Parshuram Chaturvedi urged his supporters to vote for him in the upcoming state assembly polls so that he may emerge victorious.
“You must have seen how the NDA ticket for the Buxar assembly seat became a national news.
Now that I have got it, my victory or defeat depends on you. Make me win,” Chaturvedi pleaded in rustic Bhojpuri.
Fondly called Parshuram Baba, he had left the job of an assistant sub-inspector in the Bihar police 12 years ago to work for the BJP. At present, he is a national executive member of the party’s Kisan Morcha.
Deafening slogans hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Nitish Kumar rent the air as Chaturvedi and his supporters went around the village seeking votes. He greeted everyone with folded hands and touched the feet of the elderly. On seeing his childhood friend Ramji Mishra, who retired from the police department recently, he hugged him tightly.
Mishra told the villagers that Chaturvedi had always been grounded even as his career graph in politics went up. “He has stood with us in times of our joys and sorrows. He actively worked at the grassroots level during the floods and Covid-19 pandemic,” Mishra said, adding that Chaturvedi was a workaholic.
A native of Mahadah, situated 4km from Barkagaon, Chaturvedi told this newspaper that he got a BJP ticket because of the party’s policy to “recognize even its most common worker”. “Be it the leaders or the workers, everyone is equal in the eyes of the party leadership,” he claimed.

Asked if he enjoyed the support of ex-DGP Gupteshwar Pandey, who is also a Buxar native and now a member of the JD (U), Chaturvedi said they had “a brotherly relationship”. “I touch Gupteshwar Baba’s feet. I am sure his blessings are with me,” he added.
Chaturvedi also paid obeisance to Deeh Baba, the village deity, during his three-hour campaigning at Barkagaon. Later, he left for neighbouring Sonbarsa in a red car that was followed by two other four-wheelers.
Buxar, incidentally, is a Brahmin-dominated constituency. Chaturvedi is pitted against Congress sitting MLA Sanjay Kumar Tiwari. Besides the two, there are 14 other candidates in the fray, including RLSP’s Nirmal Kushwaha and social activist Akash Kumar Singh.
The constituency will go to the polls in the first phase on October 28.
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