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A leader of the students’ wing of the ruling JD(U) was shot dead here, allegedly by an associate who took exception to non-inclusion of his name in a poster put up for Holi festivities, police said on Wednesday.

According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Rajesh Singh Prabhakar, Kanhaiya Kaushik was killed in Patel Nagar area of the city on Tuesday night and two persons, Amar Kant Jha and Dharmendra, have been arrested in this connection.

Kush, the prime accused who had allegedly pulled the trigger, however, was absconding, he said.

Kaushik was a spokesman with the Chhatra JD(U) and the vice-president of the students’ union of A N College.

He had lodged a police complaint against Kush and his associates on Tuesday after they engaged a scuffle with him over non-inclusion of their names in posters printed for “Holi milan” function, organized on the eve of the festival.

Hours later, Kush called up Kaushik saying he wanted to patch up and requested that they meet at Patel Nagar late in the night, the deputy SP said.

As the matter could not be settled, Kush opened fire in a fit of rage, killing Kaushik, he said.

One of Kaushik’s associates also received a gunshot injury in the melee and was admitted to a hospital, Prabhakar said, adding that Kush, along with Jha and Dharmendra who were accompanying him, fled the spot.

Supporters of Kaushik staged a demonstration here in protest against the attack.

They were pacified by JD(U) MLC Ranvir Nandan, who described the deceased leader as “an active worker” of the party and gave assurances that the accused will be brought to justice soon.

One doesn’t need to be too active on social media to have spotted #ShameOnYouRohitShetty trending on Twitter. Rohit has been branded ‘misogynist’ and ‘sexist’ for refusing to reshoot a scene of Sooryavanshi on Katrina Kaif’s request. “Katrina, three guys (Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn and Ranveer Singh) are walking with blasts happening behind, nobody will notice you,” was Rohit’s argument when Katrina pointed out that she had blinked in the scene and a retake is advisable.

Twitter, woke and armed with an evolved vocabulary that include words like misogyny now, ripped Rohit apart. After all, how could he? Is this where A-list female actors like Katrina stand in Bollywood’s pecking order? No one is going to notice her because three macho men will lead the show, so she should zip it and be the eye candy she was cast to be?

While Twitter screamed Dracarys on Rohit Shetty, another similar macho man (Tiger Shroff) film with a no-one-will-notice-you woman (Shraddha Kapoor) – Baaghi 3 – earned Rs 76.94 crore in 5 days. Double standards?
We blinked, and just like that missed the core issue here that it is us, the audience that’s oiling the wheel of misogyny in Bollywood that’s now staring us in the face.

We like to believe that we are woke. It’s easy that way. But calling Rohit Shetty out when it didn’t bother us when Shraddha’s role in Baaghi 3 was reduced to a mere extended cameo only exposes us. Or when in Simmba no one noticed Sara Ali Khan next to Ranveer. Or Singham and Singham Returns where Kajal Aggarwal and Kareena Kapoor Khan, respectively, faded next to Ajay. Shame on us, if anyone at all, for allowing male-centrism to thrive in Bollywood to a point where women are reduced to mere eye candies, and when even that’s not enough, there’s the Nora Fatehis of the world brought in to gyrate on screen.

Congress MP and former party chief Rahul Gandhi said that Jyotiraditya Scindia is the “only one” who can walk into his house anytime. “He was with me in college,” Gandhi said, breaking his silence on the exit of Scindia from the party. Jyotiraditya Scindia — a prominent face of the Congress from Madhya Pradesh — quit the party this week. Reportedly, Scindia, who was increasingly finding himself sidelined within the Congress, had been wanting to meet Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia to discuss his position in the party.

The two, however, did not meet Scindia forcing the former Guna MP to quit the party and join the Bharatiya Janata Party, according to reports. When asked about these reports on Wednesday in Parliament, Rahul Gandhi told media persons, “Jyotiraditya is the only one who can walk in my house anytime… He was with me in college.”

Gandhi’s comments came hours after Scindia joined the BJP at an event in Delhi. Scindia joined the party a day after making public that he was quitting the party. The exit of Scindia, who was long seen as a close aide to Rahul Gandhi and part of the latter’s ‘new guard’, has pushed the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh to the brink of a collapse.

Jyotiraditya Scindia is believed to be leading a pack of around 20 Congress MLAs who may withdraw support to the government, forcing it to collapse. The MLAs in question have already sent letters expressing their desire to quit the Madhya Pradesh assembly.