Amaresh Misra is an Indian writer and a conspiracy theorist. He was the convener of the ''Anti Communal Front'' in

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state for

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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

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were organized jointly by the

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and

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. According to him, the

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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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Misra, Amaresh 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