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Uttar Pradesh: Kashi’s maverick, untiring ‘Dharti Pakad’ passes away

Kashi’s well-known face ‘Dharti Pakad’ Narendra Nath Dubey, nick... Read More
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Dharti Pakad

Narendra Nath Dubey

, nicknamed by his supporters as ‘Adig’, who gained fame for filing nominations for each and every election since 1984, passed away due to cardiac arrest on Wednesday.

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A lawyer by profession, Adig was a habitual, and determined contestant in the electoral arena.

Adig, a resident of Varanasi — the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had contested almost every election since 1984, including that of MLA, MLC, MP and vice-president, but all in vain as he lost each one of them and forfeited his deposit every time, and yet remained undeterred.


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