Amaresh Misra is an Indian writer and a conspiracy theorist. He was the convener of the ''Anti Communal Front'' in
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
state for
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
for 4 years till 2014.
During his college years, Misra was a student leader of the Left
CPI-ML (Liberation) party in
Allahabad University
, mottoeng = "As Many Branches So Many Trees"
, established =
, type = Public
, chancellor = Ashish Chauhan
, vice_chancellor = Sangita Srivastava
, head_label ...
. He co-wrote the script for the movie ''
Bullet Raja''.
He has started the movement to restore Indias pride in Freedom Fighters contributions to Indias journey to independence
https://www.dailyo.in/politics/mangal-pandey-uttar-pradesh-1857-rashtravadi-manch-amaresh-misra-hindutva-yogi-adityanath-25084
Conspiracy theories
Amaresh Misra is a proponent of several
conspiracy theories. He has claimed that the
2008 Mumbai attacks
The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11, pronounced "twenty six eleven") were a series of Terrorism, terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist terrorist organisation from P ...
were organized jointly by the
CIA
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,
Mossad
Mossad ( , ), ; ar, الموساد, al-Mōsād, ; , short for ( he, המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, links=no), meaning 'Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations'. is the national intelligence agency ...
and
RSS
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. According to him, the
Intelligence Bureau Intelligence Bureau may refer to:
* Intelligence Bureau (India)
* Intelligence Bureau (Pakistan)
* Intelligence agency
See also
*Intelligence Bureau for the East, a World War I German organisation
*Intelligence agency
*National Intelligence Servic ...
was behind the killing of the Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad chief
Hemant Karkare
Hemant Karkare AC () (12 December 1954 – 27 November 2008) was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In 2009, he was posthumously given the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest p ...
.
He wanted to rewrite modern Indian History to reflect Indian perspective instead of the British accounts.
He unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Loksabha elections from Lucknow on the ticket of Ulema Council. He joined CONGRESS party for 5 years afer that.
Today, he runs a peasant based Kisan Kranti Dal and Mangal Pandey Sena based in Uttar Pradesh
His youtube channel https://youtube.com/channel/UCsWBBYLod-N9tJ9cdy7y4QA has more theories
Awards
The Urdu Press Club of India awarded Amaresh with the ''Jasarat Award'' in 2007.
Aligarh Group with renowned historian Irfan Habib awarded him for historical work in 2022
Publications
*Lucknow: Fire of Grace: The Story of its Renaissance, Revolution and the Aftermath (Delhi: Harper Collins, 1999)
*The Minister’s Wife (a novel—Penguin, 2002)
*Mangal Pandey: The True Story of an Indian Revolutionary (Delhi: Rupa, 2005)
*War of Civilizations: India AD 1857, Vols 1 and 2 (Delhi: Rupa, 2007)
References
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Living people
Indian National Congress politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Indian conspiracy theorists
Uttar Pradesh politicians
University of Allahabad alumni
20th-century Indian historians