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Sachchidanand Hari Sakshi also known as Sakshi Maharaj (born 16 January 1956) is an Indian political and religious leader belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has won the 2014 general election from the Unnao. He also won Indian general election in 1991 from Mathura, 1996 and 1998 from Farrukhabad. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha from 2000 to 2006, before being suspended for corruption.〔 ==Life and career== Sachchidanand Hari Sakshi was born in Sakshi Dham, Kasganj district, Uttar Pradesh. His father was Atmanandji Maharaj Premi and mother was Madalasa Devi Lodhi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=3586 )〕 Sakshi belongs to the Lodh community which have been categorised as an Other Backward Class in Uttar Pradesh. Initially, Sakshi belonged to the BJP and had close associations with Kalyan Singh, another BJP leader belonging to the Lodh community, and another BJP leader Kalraj Mishra. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 from Mathura, 1996, and 1998 from Farrukhabad which has a Lodh majority.〔〔 Sakshi Maharaj is involved in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and is currently under trial as one of the accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case.〔 In the 1999 general election he contested for Samajwadi Party (SP) after he was denied a ticket for Farrukhabad by BJP. He said the BJP's policies were not favourable to poorer and backward sections of the society. The ticket had been denied to him on the order of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Back then, Sakshi was an accused in the murder of Brahm Dutt Dwivedi, a close associate of Vajpayee. But later the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. In 2000, he was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by Mulayam Singh Yadav.〔 In August 2000, a college principal from Etah filed a complaint accusing Sakshi and two of his nephews, padam Singh and Shivram Ram, of gang-raping her. The woman and her male colleague had been allegedly assaulted by Sakhi when they were driving to Agra from Etah. They had also allegedly taken away the woman's licenced firearm and jeep. The police said that the woman had been living in Sakshi Maharaj's ashram for four years. She had expressed the desire to marry a colleague but Sakshi had objected to it. Sakshi spent about a month in the Tihar jail custody awaiting trial.〔 In 2001, he was acquitted due to lack of evidence. In January 2002, he criticised Samajwadi Party, accusing it of dictatorship, nepotism, casteism and capitalism. He said he would remain in Samajwadi Party but support BJP candidates. In December 2005, STAR TV broadcast a report stating that it had carried out a sting operation and found that some parliamentarians were misusing the MPLADS funds. Saskhi Maharaj, then a Rajya Sabha member, was among the 11 named parliamentarians. Saskhi had allegedly promised fund for a fictitious NGO. On 21 March 2006, the Rajya Sabha voted to expel Sakshi for violating the code of conduct while rejecting his apology. In 2009, an inquiry started by Etah District Magistrate Gaurav Dayal found that a college owned by Sakshi had received from the funds. The inquiry also named Sujata Verma, the principal of the college. She was later murdered. Sakshi initially absconded but on 14 October 2009 he surrendered. He was released on a bail bond of . In 2012, he returned to BJP just before the assembly polls.〔 On the night of 15 April 2013, Sujata Verma, 47, was shot dead while returning from Sakshi's ashram in Etah. The eye witness said that he say Sakshi's brother pull the trigger and alleged that Sakshi was behind the murder. The police booked Sakshi and associates for murder and criminal conspiracy. The victim Sujata Verma was a local panchayat member and a close associate of Sakshi. She also served as the principal of Maharani Avanti Bai College which was owned by Sakshi. But, they had been involved a property dispute and Verma had taken the matter to court. The victim's son said that they received threats from him in the past. After the charges were filed Sakshi went underground.〔 On 29 April 2013, Allahabad High Court refused to drop the FIR against him. In the 2014 general election, he contested from Unnao for BJP.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sakshi Maharaj」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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