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All of it started in 2019. Nobody appears to know precisely why, however someplace all of us acquired obsessive about bulldozers. Social media was flooded with memes, GIFs and hashtags of JCB excavators. A Twitter consumer had then stated, “JCB khudayi jokes are so subtle yet so funny.”

Four years later, the craze is yet not over. From governments to ‘aam aadmi’, Indians across have been experiencing the ‘bulldozer vibes’ in their daily lives.

American farmers James Cummings and J Earl Mcleod who designed the bulldozer in 1923 for agricultural purposes would have never imagined that this gigantic machine would go on to become the one of the biggest fixations of the Indians

In 2019 when people tried to find out the reason behind the ‘trending JCBs’, some pointed to the huge number of views garnered by JCB digging videos on YouTube, others traced the origin to a video of a groom in Chhattisgarh who took a JCB, instead of a horse, to reach the wedding function.

Bulldozers and Weddings

In 2023, situation remains the same. A marriage procession in Gujarat’s Navsari became the talk of the town when a groom arrived at his marriage venue on a bulldozer.

According to a report in India Today, the bulldozer was beautifully decorated with flowers. The marriage procession reached the bride’s house dancing to the beats of drums and a DJ.

While it came as a surprise for Navsari residents, the dream of Chikhli’s Keyur Patel came true. He was reportedly inspired by a video of a wedding in Punjab on social media some time back, in which the groom had arrived on a JCB for his marriage.

In December last year, an Army serviceman from Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur, Yogendra Prajapati alias ‘Yogi’, was given a bulldozer by his father-in-law as a wedding gift.

In the same year, in June, a video of another UP groom went viral when he arrived on a bulldozer in Bahraich’s Laxmanpur-Shankarpur village amid cries of ‘Bulldozer Baba ki jai’.

A groom in Madhya Pradesh’s Betul also decided to ditch the traditional ‘ghodi’ and arrived at his wedding venue on a bulldozer. The groom, Ankush Jaiswal, is a civil engineer and had been working with construction-related machines, including bulldozers, every day as part of his job.

He wanted to make his wedding entry special by using a bulldozer. The wedding took place in Jhallar village under Bhainsdehi tehsil of Betul district.

Bulldozer & Govt Crackdown

Talking on Madhya Pradesh, on Friday itself, residents of Ujjain’s Jhitarkhedi village reportedly pelted stones at a bulldozer during an anti-encroachment drive. According to reports, nine people were injured in the incident, including the JCB driver and police officers.

A large police contingent had to be deployed at the incident site. “The anti-encroachment drive was carried out to demolish a wall erected illegally,” the police said.

Reports stated that some people had encroached on government land and installed a statue. They also erected a boundary wall, following which the Panchayat had complained.

In October 2022, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led government had used bulldozers to demolish 16 houses and 29 shops of alleged stone pelters after Ram Navami processions witnessed large-scale violence and rioting in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Jharkhand. MP’s Khargone saw maximum rioting with more than fifty houses and properties being gutted.

Since the Khargone incident, Chouhan’s image has transformed into that of ‘Bulldozer Mama’, rivalling UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s ‘Bulldozer Baba’ image.

Recently, bulldozers were also used in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani after the high court issued eviction notices to nearly 4,000 families from a land owned by the Railways. The court had reportedly allowed the government to use “such force as was deemed necessary” to make the eviction occur.

A information portal quoted UP ADG Prashant Kumar as saying that inside two weeks of the BJP and CM Yogi Adityanath’s return to energy for a second time period, greater than fifty ‘criminals’ surrendered out of worry of the bulldozers.

The report acknowledged that within the first occasion, the police in Pratapgarh district stationed a bulldozer in entrance of the accused individual’s home after receiving a rape grievance towards him. The accused surrendered the next day.

Within the Tanda police station space of Rampur district, the police demolished a home of a homicide accused. The Adityanath authorities had additionally launched a restoration marketing campaign towards individuals who allegedly broken public property throughout the protest towards the Citizenship Modification Act.

A report in The Print quoted a number of BJP leaders declaring the the Bharatiya Janata Celebration and the RSS now desire leaders who give a tit-for-tat response, resulting in an immense competitors within the saffron social gathering. From Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam to Basavaraj Bommai in Karnataka, have joined the ‘bulldozer club.

Who Initiated the Bulldozer Policy — Yogi Adityanath or Ashok Gehlot?

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, who till last year termed bulldozing of houses ‘unconstitutional’ and stated that even PM doesn’t have the proper to demolish homes of any accused, has resorted to identical methodology now.

The Jaipur Improvement Authority (JDA) in January took a bulldozer to 2 properties, certainly one of them a training centre. One other report in The Print acknowledged the properties that got here beneath the bulldozer’s ruthless blade belonged to Suresh Dhaka and Bhupendra Saran, the primary suspects within the December 2022 trainer recruitment examination paper leak case.

The demolition obtained huge protection, with comparisons being made to UP CM Yogi Adityanath, whose coverage of razing down buildings has earned him the sobriquet ‘Bulldozer Baba’.

The Print report, nonetheless, claims that Gehlot authorities has been utilizing bulldozers to demolish “illegal encroachments” and industrial buildings which have come up on authorities land, together with properties belonging to these with felony expenses, since 2019 — a 12 months earlier than Adityanath authorities’s first demolition.

The Jaipur Improvement Authority has being utilizing bulldozers since 2019 to demolish unlawful flats and industrial buildings

The report quoted senior officers from the JDA as saying that for the reason that Gehlot authorities got here to energy in December 2018, it has been utilizing bulldozers to clear authorities land of encroachments.

In 2019, the JDA had been given strict directions to “rein in” encroachers, stated officers. Since then, the company has used bulldozers to demolish “illegal” flats and industrial buildings, together with these belonging to individuals accused in felony instances.

In line with knowledge offered by JDA, the authority demolished 18 large buildings in 2019, 20 in 2020, 16 in 2021, and 22 in 2022.

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